The well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor. Includes pop-up illustrations.
"T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring-not even a mouse." This timeless poem is so well known to children and so often...
"A Visit from St. Nicholas", more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and later attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, who ...
The Original Story Behind the Santa Claus Myth (Christmas Classic) Clement Moore. book of poems for them. One year he wrote this poem, which we usually call “'Twas the Night before Christmas,” to give to his children for a Christmas ...
A Visit from St. Nicholas, Or, The Night Before Christmas
Delightful illustrations accompany this version of the beloved children's classic Amid the many celebrations last Christmas Eve, in various places by different persons, there was one, in New York City, not like any other anywhere.
It was not until 1837, in The New-York Book of Poetry (edited by Charles Fenno Hoffmann), that the poem was first attributed in print to Moore. Moore claimed authorship by including it in his Poems, an 1844 anthology of his works.
" Clement Clarke Moore ( 1779 – 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care... A new publication done after the 1912 edition
It was even made into "Braille"; which is the raised printing that blind children read with their fingers. But never has it been given to us in so attractive a form as in this book.
" Clement Clarke Moore ( 1779 – 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church.