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Cider Mill Press has published many successful holiday season, from the Holiday Yule Log to the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

Carter Goodrich has illustrated sixteen New Yorker covers and was the lead character designer for Brave, Ratatouille (for which he won the International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award for character design), and Despicable Me. He has designed characters for many other beloved animated films, including Finding Nemo; Monsters, Inc; and Open Season. Of the films he has worked on, four have gone on to win Academy Awards. A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, he has twice been awarded the gold medal from the Society of Illustrators in New York. His picture books include We Forgot Brock!, Say Hello to Zorro!, Zorro Gets an Outfit, Mister Bud Wears the Cone, A Creature Was Stirring, and The Hermit Crab. Carter lives in Los Angeles, California. Be sure to visit Carter at CarterGoodrich.com.

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A Creature Was Stirring

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Chapter One

I might as well look to be sure that he's real. My friends say he's not, but that's not how I feel.

His eyes - how they twinkled! His dimples, how merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

Oh, what was that rhyme? That command they all knew? He shouted it once and this thing really flew.

(Continues...)

Excerpted from A Creature Was Stirringby Clement Clarke Moore Copyright ©2006 by Carter Goodrich. Excerpted by permission.
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