Which copy of "Twas the night before..."

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Amazon has a bewildering array of copies! Does anyone like their version loads?

I used to be a children's bookseller in a previous life and this version here was by far the most popular and always my personal favourite.
The illustrations are stunning and I love that they've kept the original language rather than modernising it.

Yay, that's the copy I ordered earlier as I had no replies! Thank you for getting back to me.

I got a copy from M&S a few years back. The illustrations are a bit cartoony (I'd prefer the nice old fashioned pictures, but the DCs were young at the time)

Also got 'Letter to Santa' from M&S.

Hardbacked and with a ribbon tie.

I have the book you ordered and it is lovely, I'm really pleased with it

We have this pop up one
www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Before-Christmas-Pop-up-book/dp/068983683X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1323043564&sr=8-2
The children aren't allowed to touch it, as it's a bit fragile, but they love the ceremony of me getting it from a high shelf and reading on Christmas eve.

They get to pull the tab on the last page

I had an absolutely fantastic one with pop ups and pull tabs etc, and the illustrations were really intricate and detailed, it was wonderful, I expect no longer in print :( Will have a look though.

Oh no, I remember now what mine was. It had a circular picture on each page, and you would slide a tab around the edge of it, and the picture would change, the new one emerging in segments from under the old until it engulfed it completely.

Did anyone else have this one?

This one illustrated by Robert Ingpen is breathtakingly beautiful.

I have the Mummymccar one that is the best imvho,I looked at them all.

I saw one in the local Waterstones back in October, entitled 'The Knits Before Christmas'. It incorporated knitting patterns for all the characters featured in the narrative, and the poem itself, with pictures of the characters. I thought that would be a fab thing to make into a tradition for Christmas eve for young DC, because they could make a little play with the characters. Would also make a fab decoration instead of a nativity scene.

I think it would be a bit late to start knitting now, though!