A boy lies awake listening for sleigh bells and hears a steam locomotive instead, stopped in the street outside his house on Christmas Eve. What follows is the quietest, strangest and most beautiful journey in American picture books, and the reason a great many families cannot start December without it.

Chris Van Allsburg wrote and painted it, and it won the Caldecott Medal. This anniversary edition reproduces that artwork more faithfully than any earlier printing, which matters more here than in almost any other book: the whole story is carried by light on snow and the look on a face in a dark carriage.

Thirty two pages, hardcover, eleven inches wide. The book alone, with no ornament, disc or audio recording enclosed.