The Night Before Christmas vs The song of Hiawatha: Which Should You Read?

The Night Before Christmas Clement Clarke Moore · 1857 ★★★★☆ 4.4 32 pages · ≈ 36 min · Moderate

A well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

The song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1855 ★★★★☆ 3.9 213 pages · ≈ 3 h 57 m · Challenging

“Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations As of thunder in the mountains? I should answer, I should tell you, "From the forests and the prairies, From th”

From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were…