Hi everyone and welcome to Seattle Learning Academy's special holiday podcast. I've got a treat for you today.

We're going to listen to the short audiobook, Twas the Night Before Christmas, by Clement C. Moore.

This well-known children's book, originally titled A Visit from St. Nicholas,

was published in 1823 and is now in the public domain.

That means that the copyright for the book has expired,

and anyone can freely use the text. A website called

Project Gutenberg, which you can find at www.gutonberg.org, has digitized these public domain

books and made them downloadable for free. Then it gets even better.

There are very kind people who have voluntarily made audio recordings of these books

and given that audio to the public domain as well.

Another website, called Libravox, collects these public domain audio files. Now you can get the Libravox collects these public domain audio files.

Now you can get the Libravox audio directly from Gutenberg.org.

So today we'll listen to a free Libravox audio of a book I downloaded for free through Project Gutenberg.

The text of the book is all included in the transcripts for this

episode, which you can find by clicking the podcast link on the right-hand side ofpronuncian.com.

I'll even add a few of Jesse Wilcox-Smith's old illustrations to the transcripts, too,

since they're kind of fun to see.

If you want to find more books and audios like this, I'll also include links directly to

Project Gutenberg and LibraVox on this episode's transcript page. And now, t'was the night

before Christmas, or a visit from St. Nicholas by Clement C. Moore.

This is a Libravox recording. All Libravox recordings are in the public domain.

For more information or to volunteer, please visit Libravox.org.

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