You can read the full poem, but you may prefer these cheerier children’s Christmas books as an alternative ... including “The Ragged Stocking.” In this 1901 poem, excerpted above, a drunk ...

The famous words "'Twas the night before Christmas" shaped the holiday by popularizing stockings ... with the publication of The New-York Book of Poetry anthology 14 years later did an author ...

If you're a fan of the classic holiday poem "The Night Before ... Dominique Foufelle in "The Little Book of Christmas." The association between gifts and stockings is why the tradition persists ...

Since its publication, the poem has been reinterpreted into children’s books ... before Christmas, when all through the house ...

In 1823, Clement Clark Moore wrote the poem, "The Night Before Christmas," in which the famous line, "the stockings were hung by the chimney with care" is written. An 1883 article in the New York ...

Moore’s Christmas Eve tale to lightheartedly ... (Ages 3 and up) Does the world need yet another book illustrating the ubiquitous 1823 poem about stockings hung with care and St. Nick coming ...

Few people reading these words will need convincing that all Christmas stockings – children ... place on the children’s shelves. Poetry books for children rarely hit the headlines, a fact ...

who wrote about the origin of the Christmas stocking for Smithsonian.com, the tradition of hanging holiday hosiery dates back to at least 1823, when it is mentioned in the classic poem “Account ...

“Christmas poem” is a capacious category, occupied by a wide range of poems and populated by a startling variety of poets. I was reminded of this when I finally tracked down a copy of a book I ...

There's a new book that celebrates 200 years of the most famous Christmas poem ever written in English, which probably has roots here in the North... Sep 28, 2022 — There's a new book that ...

The tradition of hanging stockings in the U.S. was solidified with the 1823 publication of Clement Clarke Moore’s poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas," also known as "The Night Before Christmas." ...