{"product_id":"twas-the-night-before-christmas","title":"Twas the Night Before Christmas","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan id=\"freeText2978566382896183882\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExquisitely detailed drawings by Matt Tavares embody the spirit of a magical night in a lavish, full-size gift edition marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the classic poem.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe stockings were hung by the chimney with care,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnce upon a time, children imagined St. Nicholas as a stern, skinny bishop who was as likely to dole out discipline as Christmas presents. But thanks to the poem “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas”—written by Clement C. Moore in 1822 and published the next year in the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTroy Sentinel\u003c\/i\u003e—a plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving jolly old elf we now call Santa Claus. With gorgeous monochrome illustrations by Matt Tavares that are meticulously true to pre-Victorian times,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e’Twas the Night Before Christmas Or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehonors the poem’s original language in a definitive keepsake volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41366858563631,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/7477\/5087\/products\/61338846._SX318.jpg?v=1665536728","url":"https:\/\/storytellersandco.myshopify.com\/products\/twas-the-night-before-christmas","provider":"Storytellers \u0026 Co","version":"1.0","type":"link"}