By Clement C. Moore
Illustrated by P.J. Lynch
Walker Books
November 2023, pp32, £7.99
9781529504354
Reading age: 3+ years
A beautiful retelling of this much-loved Christmas poem. Readers follow St Nicholas’s arrival and departure, delivering presents on Christmas eve to everyone in a small snow-covered village. Any settings looking to explore traditional Western stories attached to Christmas will find this a lovely addition to their classrooms.
As well as informative about the story of St Nicolas, the poem provides a wonderful introduction to lyrical verse, and will help build vocabulary around Christmas.
The illustrations are distinctive and atmospheric, and rich in detail. Readers will be transported back to an old-fashioned, 19th century Christmas eve, complete with smouldering fires, fresh gingerbread houses, stockings and foliage decorations.
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