Review: Not quite "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 4, 2012
"'Twas the Night Before Catmas" is a twist on the old classic "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Instead of people and reindeer, the story features cats in photos that look like poorly Photoshopped pictures from the web -- a mishmash of styles that do not look like they belong together in a book.The poem has the same cadence, the same basic concept adapted for cats:"Empty catnip boxes were hung by the window in hopethat St. Catmouse would come or the kittens would mope."Children may think it's cute, but this did not blow my socks off. I downloaded the book to read to my daughter's scouting group, but I could not bring myself to do it. It was too painful to look at.