We have more than fifty versions of this wonderful poem in our library; this is one of our favorites. Margaret Evans Price has a gentle talent. The Santa Claus on the cover, and throughout, is one of the kindest, least threatening Santas ever imagined. Notice how his knees are slightly bent by the weight of his pack. See his big and prominent boots. This is a Santa who is appealingly earth bound. This is a facsimile of the 1917 edition. We have die-cut it, as in the original, and the rounded top makes it especially appealing. This is an ideal first Night Before Christmas for a young child.

A classic Grimm's fairy tale in an appealing facsimile of a shaped 1916 edition. Hansel and Gretel tells the story of two siblings who brave a night in the dark woods and cleverly defeata witch who lives in an deliciously tempting gingerbread house. Margaret Evans Price (1888-1973) was a prolific American illustrator of fairy tales and children's stories. Her gentle yet archetypal style achieves the right tension between the sweetness of the children and their plight and the scariness of the witch and her fiendish plans. Hansel and Gretel is the third title in the Green Tiger series of facsimile reproductions of shape-cut children's picture books. The previous two titles. The Night Before Christmas and The Three Bears have proven to be very popular.

This lovely holiday anthology features seasonal classics from the turn of the twentieth century. Recounted in verse, the tales feature quaint color illustrations by popular children's artists of the era such as Margaret Evans Price, W. F. Stecher, Raphael Tuck, and others. Heartwarming tales include:
"The Night Before Christmas, "Clement C. Moore's timeless poem about a visit from St. Nicholas; "Father Christmas, "a celebration of plum pudding, Jack Frost, snowmen, and other holiday delights;
"How Santa Filled the Christmas Stockings, "in which a little boy discovers the pitfalls of greed; "A Visit to Santa Claus, "the story of Teddy's trip in his glider to Santa's workshop; "Polar Bear at the Zoo, "in which Teddy and his flying machine return to the North Pole with a polar bear; and "Christmas ABC, "charming verse couplets that spell out Yuletide treats.