'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Twas the Night Before Christmas is on Bashful Book Bee’s bloggy brain…. To be more specific, A Christmas Classic is on my mind this week.  After a little research I discovered Clement C. Moore’s famous poem was written in the early 1800’s, around 1822, as a poem for his children.  A family friend in Dec. of 1823, submitted the poem to the editor of the Troy Sentienel (New York) where it was first published.  The title however, was “A visit from St. Nicholas”.  She didn’t submit Mr. Moore’s name as the author of the poem, because he never intended it to be published.  So, it was not until 1844 that Mr. Moore himself acknowledged the poem.  It was at the request of his children that he finally published the poem in a volume of his poetry entitled “Poems”.  Nearly 200 years later many would claim that Mr. Moore’s poem, now known as “The Night Before Christmas”, is still the most published, most-read,

 most-memorized and most-collected Christmas book of all~ 

Bashful Book Bee has a definite favorite copy, that being…

Mary Engelbreit’s illustrated  2002 version.

However, many many books have taken Mr. Moore’s pattern and set about creating new and different tales.  From Librarians, to Texans, to Dinosaurs…one and all have

excited anticipation on Christmas Eve.  I hope you and your children, will find lots of time by the fire place, or even the space heater (as we hillbilly’s do) to have some cuddle time to read together.

• ·         Librarians Night before Christmas by David Davis
• ·         Texas Night Before Christmas by James Rice
• ·         Dinosaurs Night Before Christmas by Anne Muecke
• ·         Texas Night Before Christmas by E.J. Sullivan
• ·         Night Before Christmas in Texas That Is by Leon A.Harris
• ·         Dinosaurs Night Before Christmas by Jim Harris

I’ve never been a History buff… but with the research I’m doing for this blog, I’m finding some bits of History I loveJ… Happy Reading…

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