Clement C. Moore 
The Night Before Christmas 

It’s Christmas Eve, and everyone in the family is asleep in bed, dreaming of sugarplums. But what’s that? Do I hear a clatter out on the lawn? Could that be Santa Claus? Children and parents alike will thrill to this classic read-aloud Christmas eve poem about a visit from Santa Claus written by Clement C. Moore in 1823. This edition features the iconic 1912 illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith.

About the author

Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863) was a writer and American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning. Moore gained considerable wealth by subdividing and developing other parts of his large inherited estate in what became known as the residential neighborhood of Chelsea.