| Author | : Betty Lou Phillips |
| Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1423634403 |
A take-off on Clement Clarke Moore's poem The night before Christmas, a.k.a. A visit from St. Nicholas.
Night Before Christmas in Paris
| Author | : Betty Lou Phillips |
| Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2012-09-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1423630548 |
Haute couture and Paris sights capture Mrs. Claus’s imagination—as they would any woman’s! This charming story finds Mrs. Claus fabulously ensconced in Paris, having enjoyed fashion week and been lured for several months’ stay by all the sights, scents, and couture of Paris. In the end, Santa takes a quick tour of the City of Light himself—the Eiffel Tower, Champs-Elysées, the Louvre, Tuileries Gardens, Notre Dame, Montmartre and more—to find the satiated Mrs. Claus and whisk her back home just in time to help the elves with the last-minute packing of toys for children all over the world.
The Night Before Christmas in Paris
| Author | : Betty Lou Phillips |
| Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
| Total Pages | : 19 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 142363053X |
A haute stocking stuffer for Paris lovers. Haute couture and Paris sights capture Mrs. Claus's imagination--as they would any woman's! This charming story finds Mrs. Claus fabulously ensconced in Paris, having enjoyed fashion week and been lured for several months' stay by all the sights, scents, and couture of Paris. In the end, Santa takes a quick tour of the City of Light himself--the Eiffel Tower, Champs-Elysées, theLouvre, Tuileries Gardens, Notre Dame, Montmartre and more--to find the satiated Mrs. Claus and whisk her back home just in time to help the elves with the last-minute packing of toys for children all over the world.
Sherlock's Night Before Christmas
| Author | : Julie Petersen |
| Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2018-09-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1423650301 |
This charming Christmas mystery is told in verse and beautiful illustrations—a perfect holiday treat for Sherlock fans of all ages! In the rhyme and meter of Clark Clement Moore’s classic Christmas poem The Night Before Christmas, Sherlock Holmes tracks clues through his familiar haunts to “eliminate the impossible” and catch his nemesis Moriarty in his dastardly crimes. When he discovers the jolly old gent with the white beard dipping his hand into a bag full of toys, Sherlock surmises that “whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Or is it? Sherlock’s Night Before Christmas is part of a series of illustrated verse books based on classic literary characters. All written by Julie Petersen and illustrated by Sheryl Dickert, the others include Mr. Darcy’s Night Before Christmas and Scrooge’s Night Before Christmas.
Mr. Darcy's Night Before Christmas
| Author | : Julie Petersen |
| Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2015-08-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1423637984 |
Told in rhyming verse and beautiful illustrations, this clever Christmas romance is the ideal gift for Austen fans of all ages. Clement Clarke Moore's holiday classic The Night Before Christmas meets Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice when Mr. Darcy gets his own visit from St. Nicholas. In this parody of the beloved original poem, Santa teaches Darcy the true meaning of the holiday and helps him get what he's always wanted—a wife! Mr. Darcy’s Night Before Christmas is part of a series of illustrated verse books based on classic literary characters. All written by Julie Petersen and illustrated by Sheryl Dickert, the others include Sherlock’s Night Before Christmas and Scrooge’s Night Before Christmas.
Christmas in Paris
| Author | : Anita Hughes |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2016-10-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250105501 |
Isabel Lawson was supposed to be visiting the Christmas tree in the Place de la Concorde, and eating escargots and macaroons with her new husband on their honeymoon. But a week before the wedding, she called it off. Neil suddenly decided to take over his grandparents' farm. Isabel, an ambitious Philadelphia financial analyst, wasn't ready to trade her briefcase for a pair of rubber boots and a saddle. Using their honeymoon tickets for herself would give her a chance to clear her head-- until she locks herself out on the balcony in the middle of winter. Thankfully her neighbor Alec, a French children's illustrator, comes to her rescue. He too is nursing a broken heart for the holidays ...
A Very French Christmas
| Author | : Guy de Maupassant |
| Publisher | : New Vessel Press |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2017-10-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 193993155X |
Joyeux Noël: “[An]endearing collection of Christmas stories from ten of France’s most esteemed writers―past and present―skillfully translated.” ―Foreword Reviews This collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time, featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth century authors Irène Némirovsky and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel. With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates Christmas à la française—delicious, intense and unexpected.
That Night In Paris (The Holiday Romance, Book 2)
| Author | : Sandy Barker |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
| Total Pages | : 371 |
| Release | : 2020-04-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0008362831 |
Note to self: don’t sleep with your flatmate after a curry and three bottles of wine... especially if he’s secretly in love with you and wants you to meet his mum.
Another Night Before Christmas
| Author | : Carol Ann Duffy |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Children's poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780330523936 |
A classic Christmas tale re-told for modern times by the Poet Laureate, with illustrations by Rob Ryan It's the night before Christmas and a young girl creeps like a mouse down the stairs, determined to find out for certain whether Santa is real. But she falls asleep within seconds... Soon, Santa and his reindeer land on her roof-top and when he bursts out of her fireplace she is woken up to a room filled with magic. As she watches him fly off into the night, she knows that she will never forget this sight because, at Christmas, the best gift of all is belief. Carol Ann Duffy's twenty-first-century reworking of the Victorian Christmas classic is filled with her characteristic warmth, wit and imagination and, illustrated by the sophisticated, romantic and truly original Rob Ryan, it will be the perfect gift this Christmas.
