Description
Very good dust jacket illustrated with Santa and his reindeer at a house on the front, on the back an illustration of Santa sleeping, jacket shows edge-wear, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good+ binding is red cloth over boards, tan cloth backed. An embossed decoration on front. Gilt lettering on spine. The “2” is present on the number line on copyright page which is the designation of second edition. The book measures 10.2″ tall x 8.3″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
This familiar poem is an integral, beloved part of every child’s Christmas. But the pictorial interpretation brought to it by Caldecott Honor Book artist Anita Lobel is something we have not seen before. Though Clement C. Moore wrote the poem in New York City, most artists place it in an idyllic country setting. Now Anita Lobel returns to the city and brings to her illustrations the warmth and the poem glowing detail that reflect her own affection for her city as it looked and felt in the late nineteenth century. With rows of rooftops and chimneys, the ornate interior of a peacefully sleeping house, and a miniature St. Nick coursing through the nighttime sky over a majestic bridge and a silent city, she has created a haunting Victorian vision of the Christmas classic-a visual treat that children everywhere will treasure.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
Clement C. MOORE was born in the Chelsea section of New York City in 1779 and wrote his famous poem there for his children in 1822.
About the illustrator (from the dust jacket)
ANITA Louis was born in Poland, lived briefly in Sweden, and came to New York City shortly after World War 11. She studied it at Pill Institute in New York and has illustrated over thirty books for children among them the 1982Caldecott Honor Book On Market Street, Singing Breed, and The Rose in My Garden.. The inspiration for her illustrations in The Night Before Christmas came from the Victorian townhouse in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn where she lived with her husband, Arnold Label, For many years. From the time I began long Christmas in Sweden. This holiday has always meant some things special to me” she says.
