Beloved illustrator Holly Hobbie offers a timeless take on the best-known Christmas poem of all time. In the twilight hours of Christmas Eve,a hushed world enveloped in moonlit snow waits for the soft tinkling of sleigh bells to announce the most magical night of the year. Then comes a thump on the rooftopa scratching in the chimneyand suddenly–Santa Claus appears! In her fresh imagining of Clement C. Moore’s enduring poemacclaimed master watercolorist Holly Hobbie captures the magic of this timeless tale. Her vision of the night before Christmas glows with warmth and feelingand features the delightful addition of a child’s-eye viewwhich magnifies the wonder of this excitingmysterious time.