The Classic Poem in 27 Cozy Big-Line Pages, Plus 23 Bonus Christmas Designs and a Hidden Mouse to Find in Every Picture
The classic poem in big, easy lines, with a mouse hidden in every picture.
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Children aged 4 to 8, and the grown-up reading beside them. The lines are thick and the shapes are big, so a small hand can finish a whole picture without giving up halfway, and nothing is so fiddly that it ends in tears on Christmas Eve.
It is made to be read aloud. Each of the first 27 pictures has one couplet of Clement Clarke Moore's poem printed underneath, so you read a line, your child looks for the mouse, and then the coloring starts. If you would like to read the poem first, the full text and its story are here.
The poem, one couplet under each of the first 27 pictures, then 23 more Christmas scenes:
Almost. The book follows the 1823 poem couplet by couplet, with one change: the couplet about St. Nick's pipe is left out, because the book is made for young children. Everything else is there, in order.
Ages 4 to 8. Younger children enjoy it with a grown-up helping; older ones like the hunt for the mouse and coloring the detail in the bonus scenes.
8.5 x 11 inches, a standard letter-size paperback, 104 pages in all, with 50 pictures.
No. Each picture is printed on one side of the sheet only, so even if a marker soaks through, it lands on a blank page, not on the next picture.
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