By Clement C. Moore, Bill Bell (illustrator)
Merry Christmas to all, and to all an excellent Night!Since it ?rst seemed in 1823 as “A stopover at from St. Nicholas,” The evening sooner than Christmas has been a vintage vacation tale, learn and loved through kids and adults through the vacation season. Stockings are held on the mantle, sugar plums dance via young children’ desires, reindeer clamor at the rooftops, and “you understand in a second it needs to be Saint Nick!” This brilliant and vividly illustrated variation of Moore’s undying poem is a must have for any relations in the course of the vacation season, if it is positioned lower than the tree for Christmas Eve or given as a pre-holiday deal with. a while: 4-8. forty three colour illustrations
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Away to the window I f lew like a f lash, tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow gave the luster of midday to objects below, When what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, with a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick! More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, and he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: “Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen!
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; a bundle of toys he had f lung on his back, and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes, how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard on his chin was white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, and the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, and his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; a bundle of toys he had f lung on his back, and he looked like a peddler just opening his pack. His eyes, how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard on his chin was white as the snow; The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, and the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath.