The Night Before Christmas [Abridged] [Hardcover]

Clement Clarke Moore (Author), Ruth Sanderson (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up

Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreS Up. A very pretty but essentially traditional rendering of the familiar holiday poem. Warm colors dominate the palette with golden browns that glow in the interior scenes and cool blues for the snow and night sky. Although the scenes are beautiful, the people are stiff, with hard faces and uncomfortable positions; even the sleeping children don't look restful. There are so many other versions of the poem available with their own marks of graphic originality, such as Ted Rand's illustrated version (North-South, 1995) or The Grandma Moses Night Before Christmas (Random, 1991), that they make this an unnecessary purchase.
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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers; 1st edition (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316579637
• ISBN-13: 978-0316579636
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,143,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Night Before Christmas, Ruth Sanderson Illustrator, December 16, 2004

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H. Newman (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Night Before Christmas (Hardcover)

I purchased the hardcover edition for my 2 year old daughter. The Illustrations are absoulutely beautiful. The only problem I have with it is that it is not the original poem by Moore. It has been censored, yes, censored. The 2 lines "The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath." have been removed! I understand that smoking is no longer a "PC" thing in this day and age, but when you are purchasing a classic poem, one you remember from your childhood, you expect to get the actual poem. I was disappointed that this fact had not been noted in the product description. I guess it's a little 1984ish to me, to start censoring a book and not inform the consumer.