Title: Awful - Editors removed key parts of The NIght Before Christmas Poem!
Product review: If I could give Zero stars this book would get it! This book almost ruined our Christmas Eve! Senior editor Alastair Dougall of Doring Kindersley removed key parts of the classic tale The Night Before Christmas, for which the book takes it name!The stanzas beginning with "The children were nestled all snug in their beds," "When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter" are completely GONE!The editors must have needed to shorten the classic poem to make room for other stories of Christmas which are indeed beautiful but they don't make up for the missing parts of the classic poem. Perhaps the removed verses are part of some original version but there is no indication of this in the book.Once I realized the hack job that these editors had done, I was lucky to be able to locate our old copy of Moore's poem from last year which I could read aloud to my 6-year-olds.
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