The Night Before Christmas

This Christmas spend time to hear the story of a man who met Santa Claus and look through your window bit further into the skies for a sleigh of reindeers.

The poem is also known as ‘A visit from St. Nicholas’ and it has been written by Clement Clarke Moore in 1822 for his two daughters. “Twas the Night Before Christmas” tells a story about a father who meets St. Nick on Christmas Eve. St. Nicholas had never been associated with a sleigh and reindeers prior to the first publication of the poem in 1823.

Moore’s description of St. Nick helped create Santa Claus as he is thought of today.

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’ is still read to children around the world every Christmas. It is also the most published, most memorised and most collected book of all Christmas literature.

This magical poem so creatively written has been in our culture for centuries and it will be entertaining us for centuries to come.

This digital adaptation contains 14 beautifully illustrated pages.