- San Nicolás, nochebuena, Christmas Eve, Santa Claus
A magical train ride on nochebuena (Christmas Eve) takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from San Nicolás.
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Warm, earnest, classical in form and grave.
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Chris Van Allsburg
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- HOUGHTON MIFFLEN, Andersen Press, Ediciones Ekaré
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780544457980
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“On Christmas Eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed.”
Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for Jumanji (1981) and The Polar Express (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for The Garden of Abdul Gasazi. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, he was a 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial International Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Michigan in April 2012.
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