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The night before Christmas

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Here is a delightful poem that tells the story of the night before Christmas, when Santa Claus arrives with his reindeer and clambers down the chimney to fill the stockings by the hearth.

The text and pictures combine to capture the feeling of magic and excitement, and give a real sense of warmth and Christmas spirit.

Tomie dePaola has set the poem in the 1840s, using his own home in a small New Hampshire village as a model.

The borders to the pages are based on designs from New England quilts, giving the book a wonderfully nostalgic feel.

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Oxford University Press
019273895X / 9780192738950
eBook (EPUB)
811.2
06/11/2014
England
English
68 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Description based on print version record. Originally published: New York: Holiday House, 1980; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.