Country Canada Publication date 9-4-2012 Originally published 4 September 2012 | Language English Media type Print | |
Twas the Night Before Christmas: Edited by Santa Claus for the Benefit of Children of the 21st Century, published by Pamela McColl's Grafton and Scratch Publishing in 2012, is a smoke-free version of the classic poem attributed to Clement C. Moore. The book has been translated and published in four different languages.
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Background
The book has been covered in media including USA Today, The New York Post, BBC, National Post, Huffington Post, The Guardian, CBC The Current, The View, NPR, The Scotsman, NBC Nightly News, Vanity Fair, and The Telegraph,.
Awards and reception
The book has won seven book awards including four Benjamin Franklin Book Awards through the Independent Book Publisher’s Association, a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, and a Mom’s Choice Award along with a Global International Ebook Award.
The Stephen Colbert Show created a segment based on this version of the famous holiday poem A Visit From St. Nicholas.
McColl was also called as an expert witness during a trial over the dispute of authorship of the classic poem.