The Night Before Christmas
The Night Before Christmas might mean:
- A Visit from St. Nicholas, a poem by Clement Clarke Moore, often called The Night Before Christmas because that phrase is in the first line of the poem
- "The Night Before Christmas" (Tom and Jerry), the third episode of Tom and Jerry
The Night Before Christmas Media
Cover page for a series of illustrations for the Night Before Christmas produced as part of a PWA project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms
Clement Clarke Moore, the author of A Visit from St. Nicholas
The original publication of Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas in the Troy Sentinel, 23 December 1823
Some contend that Henry Livingston Jr., not Moore, was the author of the poem.
Cover of a 1912 edition of the poem, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith
The Librarian of Congress, Dr. James Billington, reads The Night Before Christmas to the Little Scholars, December 2010