Twas the Night Before Christmas (smoke-free version)

Twas the Night Before Christmas
Author Pamela McColl
Country Canada
Language English
Publication date
 9-4-2012
Media type Print

Twas the Night Before Christmas: Edited by Santa Claus for the Benefit of Children of the 21st Century, published by Pamela McColl's Grafton and Scratch Publishing in 2012,[1] is a smoke-free version of the classic poem attributed to Clement C. Moore.[2][3] The book has been translated and published in four different languages.[4]

Background

The book has been covered in media including USA Today,[5] The New York Post,[6] BBC, National Post,[7] Huffington Post,[8] The Guardian,[9] CBC The Current,[10] The View, NPR, The Scotsman,[11] NBC Nightly News, Vanity Fair, and The Telegraph,.[12]

Awards and reception

The book has won seven book awards including four Benjamin Franklin Book Awards through the Independent Book Publisher’s Association,[13] a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award,[14] and a Mom’s Choice Award along with a Global International Ebook Award.[15]

The Stephen Colbert Show created a segment based on this version of the famous holiday poem A Visit From St. Nicholas.

McColl was also called as an expert witness during a trial over the dispute of authorship of the classic poem.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Santa Claus can quit smoking you can" Epoch Times. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  2. ↑ "Santa Quits Smoking In New Edition Of Best-Selling Christmas Classic" Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  3. ↑ "Santa Claus Forced to Quit Smoking During His Most Stressful Season" Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  4. ↑ "'Twas the Night Before Christmas Released in Chinese for the First Time in 189 Years by Awarding Winning Anti-Tobacco Activist" Market Wired. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  5. ↑ "Column: OK, so Santa has flaws, too" USA Today. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  6. ↑ "Santa doesn’t smoke a pipe in PC rewrite of Twas the Night" The New York Post. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  7. ↑ "After 200 years, Santa kicks a bad habit: Publisher, activist edit Twas The Night Before Christmas, take away St. Nick’s pipe" National Post. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  8. ↑ "Santa Quits Smoking: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas' Loses References To Santa Smoking" Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  9. ↑ "Santa's pipe put out in new edition of children's classic" The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  10. ↑ "Santa quits smoking in edited version of Twas the Night Before Christmas The Current. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  11. ↑ "Santa’s pipe dream up in smoke as tobacco ban on children’s classic derided" The Scotsman. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  12. ↑ "’Twas the night before Christmas... and Santa’s pipe had gone missing" The Telegraph. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  13. ↑ "2013 Benjamin Franklin Gold and Silver Award Winners" IPBA. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  14. ↑ "2012 Moonbeam Childrens Book Awards Results" Moonbeam Awards. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  15. ↑ "Santa Continues On In Spite of Harsh Critics" Market Wired. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
  16. ↑ "Retrial to find true ‘’Twas the Night Before Christmas’ author" Oneida Dispatch. Retrieved 2015-5-7.
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