Librarian's Night Before Christmas (The Night Before Christmas) - Hardcover

David Davis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1589803361 ISBN 13: 9781589803367

Publisher: Pelican Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

A librarian who is busy shelving books on Christmas Eve is surprised to see Santa flying toward the library in his red bookmobile. Bringing wonderful gifts of new books, carpet, and more, Santa and his elves make the library as good as new.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Other books in the "Night before Christmas Series":

"Cajun Night before Christmas" "Teachers' Night before Christmas" "Racecar Driver's Night before Christmas" "Alaskan Night before Christmas" "Hawaiian Night before Christmas" "Librarian's Night before Christmas" "Redneck Night before Christmas" "Rocky Mountain Night before Christmas" "Sugar Lump's Night before Christmas" "Nurse's Night before Christmas" "Principal's Night before Christmas" "Preacher's Night before Christmas" "Firefighter's Night before Christmas" "Pennsylvania Dutch Night before Christmas" "Texas Night before Christmas" "Country Music Night before Christmas" "The Night before Christmas" "Ozark Night before Christmas" "Sailor's Night before Christmas" "Hillbilly Night afore Christmas" "Trucker's Night before Christmas" "Night before Christmas, In Texas That Is" "Irish Night before Christmas" "Cowboy Night before Christmas" "Gullah Night before Christmas" "Cajun Night after Christmas" "Santa's Revenge"

From the Inside Flap:

Praise for The Night Before Christmas Series:
"Forget Dancer, Prancer, Comet, and Vixen. . . . Good Clement, wherever he is, will not be gnashing his teeth."
-New York Times Book Review

What happened next didn't seem to be real,
'Cause out of the sky cruised a red bookmobile!
Up to the front steps flew his library ride,
With a portrait of Shakespeare airbrushed on the side.

Due to low staffing, a librarian must spend her Christmas Eve stacking the shelves at a library in desperate need of renovations. After the strain of a long night that has left her feeling "like Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol," she is pleasantly surprised to see Santa and his six elves coming to her rescue in a red bookmobile.

Santa charged through the door, and his black knee boots shone.
He bowed as he asked, "Need interlibrary loans?"

In this delightful retelling of Clement C. Moore's classic, Santa signs Newbery winners and starred Caldecotts and stocks the library shelves with Hawthorne, Steinbeck, Millay, and Hemingway. After reading to the children and drinking some hot chocolate, Santa puts his elves to work replacing the rugs, fixing leaks, and organizing gifts according to the Dewey decimal system. As he leaves, Santa pays overdue fees and booms, "Do one more good deed. Have a real merry Christmas-teach someone to read!"

About this edition

• Publisher: Pelican Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1589803361
• ISBN 13: 9781589803367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Jim Harris