Moore, Clement Clarke,  1779-1863 <br/><br/>
Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Visit_from_St._Nicholas  Release date is 2005-11-22 
<br/><br/>Janet Blenkinship, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team  Janet Blenkinship, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team 
<br/><br/> "'Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore is a poem first published anonymously in 1823. On Christmas Eve, a father witnesses a magical visitor arrive by sleigh and reindeer, bounding down the chimney to deliver presents and fill stockings. This beloved work transformed American ideas about Santa Claus and Christmas gift-giving, though its authorship sparked controversy between Moore and Henry Livingston Jr. The poem has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American." (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Santa Claus -- Juvenile poetry Christmas -- Juvenile poetry Narrative poetry Children's poetry, American 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ  PS