'Twas the night before Christmas, and other seasonal favorites Book

A holiday keepsake featuring magnificent art from the Met Perfect for gift-giving, this beautiful volume of holiday writings is lavishly illustrated with artwork from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through holiday-rich artwork—from a medieval stained-glass window, a Currier and Ives print, and Arthur Rackham illustrations, to woodcuts from the Wiener Werkstätte, Romare Bearden's The Block, and Victorian greeting cards—every element of the Christmas season is lovingly depicted. The accompanying text includes selections to delight every member of the family, from the youngest children, who will enjoy the traditional "I Saw Three Ships" and the beloved title poem, to parents and grandparents, who will savor selections by Joseph Brodsky and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and Other Seasonal Favorites is a treasury to share.

Author Bio: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, welcoming more than five million visitors annually. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. William Lach is a project editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.