The Night Before Christmas
A Visit from St. Nicholas
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3.5 • 20 Ratings
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- $0.99
Publisher Description
The timeless holiday classic of The Night Before Christmas is brought to life in whole new way with a beautifully illustrated book and live action movie. Share the book as a family or watch as the story unfolds as a movie through your AppleTV. The book also has special features including narrated audio on each page.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Veering from the convivial, scene-centered graphic interpretation often associated with this classic, W rbs offers a sparer take, narrowing each scene to softly focused images that are more suggestive than representational. The poem's opening lines are accompanied by an image of a lone candle burning in a brass candleholder, and the sleigh's rooftop landing shows two shadowy reindeer heads emerging from behind a foregrounded stone chimney. Santa's visage is something of a mystery at first, his arrival down the chimney represented solely by sooty boot prints, and the top of his cap, surrounded by smoke, rendered alongside the description of his pipe. Building a sense of mystery until near the end, W rbs finally includes one fetching, full-frame portrait of a warmly smiling Santa. A solid choice for those in search of a sophisticated, minimalist artistic vision of Moore's verse. Ages 6 up. (Oct.)
Customer Reviews
Beautiful, but lacking in literature.
Beautiful book, but I was disappointed to discover that this version has been scrubbed of Santa’s pipe and the smoke encircling his head like a wreath. Also, his reindeer, referred to as ‘coursers’ in the Clement C. Moore original, are courses in this version which makes no sense.