The Navy's Night Before Christmas
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Publisher Description
Inspired by the famous Christmas poem, "The Night Before Christmas," this sweet picture book about Christmas in the Navy the perfect holiday gift for children of military families and anyone with loved ones serving overseas.
’Twas the night before Christmas, when way out to sea
Not a creature was stirring to windward or lee.
The sailors were nestled all snug in their racks
Like orders of pancakes, so tight were the stacks.
One Christmas Eve out at sea, some homesick sailors are paid a visit by Master Chief Claus, the Santa of Sailors. This lively and poignant tale was inspired by Clement C. Moore’s classic yuletide poem.
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A young sailor on lookout duty aboard an aircraft carrier narrates this tongue-in-cheek restaging of Clement Clarke Moore's poem, a companion to The Soldiers' Night Before Christmas. Holland and Ford swap out the chubby, bearded Santa for a brawny "Master Chief Claus," who arrives via a Greyhound cargo aircraft filled with presents. "A salty old dog, he was all chest and arm./ I bet he could bench-press a Jeep with no harm," gushes the narrator, before the Chief and his crew deliver gifts for the sleeping sailors: "Garcia and Washington, Collins and Yee,/ and Williams and Rubin, and Clark and Ali./ Our mission tonight: to take care of our own,/ Bringing joy to our sailors with gifts straight from home.' " Manders's retro caricatures infuse the sailors with personality in this shipshape twist on a holiday favorite. Ages 4 8.
