AN AUSSIE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

by Yvonne Morrison

Book Overview

Yvonne Morrison's rollicking rewrite of the famous old poem Twas The Night Before Christmas gives the original version a hilarious Aussie twist! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1865046531
• ISBN13: 9781865046532
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.2" x 0.3" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

great great great

Fun Australian cultural substitutes for Northern Hemisphere icons of the much retold Santa Klaus Christmas story.

A feast of pictures for young and old.

What does an Aussie Santa do when Christmas comes around and it is too hot to wear the usual outfit that was designed for the icy north? Well of course he pulls on his red shorts and his colourful shirt, chucks the prezzies in the back of his trusty, rusty ute, tells his kelpie dog to keep guard, then gets on the road with the help of eight true blue kangaroos. The text of this old favorite is adapted for the big continent Down Under and the illustrations by the multi-talented award-winning artist Kilmeny Niland put the icing on the cake.