Angelou's poem celebrates the promise of peace in the holiday season. In this simple story, a family joins with their community--rich and poor, black and white, Muslim and Jew--to celebrate the holidays.

"Once upon a time, children imagined St. Nicholas as a stern, skinny bishop who was as likely to dole out discipline as Christmas presents. But thanks to the poem 'Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas'--written by Clement C. Moore in 1822 and published the next year in the Troy Sentinel--a plumper, merrier St. Nick was born, transformed into the sleigh-riding, chimney-diving jolly old elf we now call Santa Claus. With gorgeous monochrome illustrations...

Illustrates the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

A newly illustrated version of the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

The classic poem of Saint Nicholas' visit on Christmas Eve.

Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

The famous poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

Presents the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

Five poems by Langston Hughes and one anonymous one translated from the Spanish present the story of the first Christmas from different perspectives.

Paintings by Grandma Moses illustrate the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.