The Night Before the Night Before Christmas

by Natasha Wing, Mike Lester (Illustrator)

Overview

It's December 23, and Christmas is just around the corner. But one family is having trouble getting its act together. Once again, Natasha Wing follows the rhythms and meter of Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem, yet gives it her own entirely original twist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780448428727
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/23/2002
Series:	Night Before Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.09(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Natasha Wing was born in Milford, Connecticut, in 1960. At the age of 20, she moved to Arizona, where she finished college at Arizona State University in 1982 with a B.S. in Advertising. In 1988, she married Daniel Wing and moved to Northern California, where she worked in advertising for a number of years.

It wasn't until 1991 that she decided to write children's books. Luckily she sold her first book, Hippity Hop, Frog on Top, within 6 months and has been writing children's books and articles ever since. Her second book, Jalapeno Bagels, came out in June 1996 with Atheneum Books. The Night Before Easter, was published with Putnam All Aboard Books. She has also been published in Humpty Dumpty's Magazine, Girls' Life, and Hopscotch for Girls, and has two recipes in Writers in the Kitchen.

Cartoonist, illustrator, writer Mike Lester is the creator of the nationally syndicated comic Mike Du Jour and the author-illustrator of many children books, including the New York Times Best Illustrated Book A Is for Salad. He is the recipient of five National Cartoonist Society Awards and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. Mike and his wife, Regan, live in Florida.

Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 3-In this contemporary send-up of Clement C. Moore's poem, a family overwhelmed by holiday preparations comes to realize that "Christmas is about love./And we have quite enough." Energetic, exaggerated cartoon illustrations accompany the lengthy, unevenly rhymed text, which scans awkwardly and does not easily lend itself to sharing aloud. Readers searching for the true meaning of Christmas will want to look elsewhere.-S. P. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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