For my engineered book I chose a pop-up version of the classic, A Night Before Christmas written by Clement C. Moore in 1822. This book is about what happens the night before Christmas and how Santa Clause goes to each house and delivers his presents. While the house is very quiet and everyone is asleep, the Father hears Santa and his Reindeer landing on top of their roof. He then hears Santa coming down the chimney and he goes watch him to his work. He describes how Santa looks and that he gets right to his work. When he finished leaving the presents he gives a nod and up the chimney he rose. As Santa gets in his sleigh to go to the next house, the father hears him exclaim, "Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good night!"
This classic Christmas favorite is a great poem by itself but creation of a pop-up book version makes it really come to life. The sleigh, Santa, Papa, Mama and the children dreaming of sugar plums all pop out and really engage the reader in the story.
The illustrations were done by Tom Patrick and he did a beautiful job. There is so much detail that went in to his work and it really looks exaclty how you would imagein each scene in the story. There are seven different pages that he created and there are also additional activites for the reader to do. You can twirl the sugar plums dancing in the children's head, you can move the sled around and when you close the book Santa magically goes up the chimney. Everything about the creation of this engineered book adds to the already favorite and memorable poem written by Clemet C. Moore.
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