{"product_id":"9781536217995","title":"Twas the Night Before Christmas","description":"\u003cb\u003eExquisitely detailed drawings by Matt Tavares embody the spirit of a magical night now in a lavish, full-size gift edition marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the classic poem.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\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, this reissue of the holiday favorite ’\u003ci\u003eTwas the Night Before Christmas Or Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas \u003c\/i\u003ehonors the poem’s original language in a definitive keepsake volume.","brand":"Moore, Clement C.","offers":[{"title":"Hardback B221","offer_id":62402375843896,"sku":"9781536217995","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0218\/3858\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0b63e6cc-76ad-46b0-8ff3-825efb8347cf.jpg?v=1792523249","url":"https:\/\/nutsandshells.com\/products\/9781536217995","provider":"Nuts \u0026 Shells","version":"1.0","type":"link"}