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The Nights Before Christmas
2014
First Published
4.08
Average Rating
229
Number of Pages
This lavishly produced hardback book is the perfect keepsake gift to treasure. Fully illustrated in color throughout by acclaimed illustrator Tony Ross, The Nights Before Christmas has 24 classic festive tales, songs and stories to read throughout Advent or keep as a family Christmas anthology. There are festive extracts from much-loved books including A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame; yuletide poems ('A Visit from St. Nicholas') and carols ('Good King Wenceslas'), together with traditional tales from Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. This is the ultimate gift for Christmas.
Avg Rating
4.08
Number of Ratings
39
5 STARS
23%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
10%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
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Author

Tony Ross
Tony Ross
Author · 79 books

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Tony Ross is a British illustrator and author of children's picture books. He was a student at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. Ross has had quite a few occupations, such as cartoonist, graphic designer, art director at an advertising agency, senior lecturer in art and head of the illustration course at Manchester Polytechnic. Ross won the 1986 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, picture books category, for Ich komm dich holen!, (I'm coming to get you! - Andersen, 1984. He was runner-up for the 1990 Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject, for Dr. Xargle's book of Earth Tiggers. Meet the illustrator What is your favourite animal? A cat What is your favourite boy’s name? Bill What is your favourite girl’s name? Roxanne What is your favourite food? Lobster What is your favourite music? Irish What is your favourite hobby? Sailing

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