Featured is a wonderful children’s book entitled, “The Night Before Christmas,” Popup Book.
- Revisit the books of your childhood, your parents’ or even your grandparents’ childhood.
- “You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be – I had a mother who read to me.” — Strickland Gillilan
- This poem was written by Clement Moore in 1822 for his six children as a special Christmas treat.
- This poem was at first called, “An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas.”
- Now “The Night Before Christmas has become a wonderful part of the traditional Christmas celebration.
- A pop-up book is any book with three-dimensional pages, often with elements that pop up as a page is turned.
- Pop-up books go back centuries.
- Since at least the 1100s, readers have been lifting flaps, spinning dials, and opening elaborate three-dimensional spreads in the pages of books.
- The earliest interactive texts were intended for scholars
