The Night Before Christmas

Clement Clarke Moore's classic Christmas story is illustrated in traditional oil paintings by renowned artist Ruth Sanderson. A small town New England setting serves as the backdrop for St. Nick's visit on the night everyone dreams of sugar plums and Christmas joy. Full color.

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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