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A Creature Was Stirring
adapted by Carter Goodrich
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As a family lives out the famous poem by Clement Moore, a young mouse who shares their house is unable to sleep and, in his excitement, performs several deeds bound to place him on the naughty list, and one that just might save him.

Publishers Weekly
Forget mice. A wide-eyed boy is the kind of creature Clement C. Moore would not have imagined scurrying around while the events of his famous poem took place. Goodrich juxtaposes, in alternating stanzas, the comments of a curious, tousle-haired tyke sporting stars-and-moons pj's, with Moore's well-known words. "I don't want to butt in,/ but I'm wide awake,/ and in Santa's book/ that's a naughty mistake," says the boy, following the poem's opening lines. Yet the boy redeems himself with a good deed. Shadowy watercolor-and-colored-pencil compositions bring readers right into the anticipatory Christmas Eve mood. All ages. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.