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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Garfield's Night Before Christmas by Jim Davis ISBN 13: 9780448090801. Large format book using the original NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS poem by Clement C. Moore and illustrated with hilarious Garfield drawings and "bubble" commentary. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Shipping: US$ 4.95 Within U.S.A. Other Popular Editions of the Same Title. Featured Edition. ISBN 10: 0816732922 ISBN 13: 9780816732920 Publisher: Watermill Press, 1988 Softcover. Grosse. 1988 Hardcover. Troll . 1996 Softcover. Ravett. 1989 Hardcover. RAVETT. 1990 Softcover. Customers who bought this item also bought. Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace. 1. Garfield's Night Before Christmas [Paperback] jim-davis. Book Description Grosset & Dunlap, 1988. Condition: New. New. Seller Inventory # Q-0448090805. Shop With Us. Sell With Us. About Us. Find Help. Other AbeBooks Companies. Follow AbeBooks. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Garfield's Night Before Christmas by Jim Davis. From and To can't be the same language. That page is already in . Something went wrong. Check the webpage URL and try again. Sorry, that page did not respond in a timely manner. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Something went wrong, please try again. Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. A Garfield Christmas Special. A Garfield Christmas Special (also called A Garfield Christmas for short) is an animated Christmas special based on the newspaper comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis, originally broadcast on CBS on December 21, 1987. Davis based the story on his experiences of celebrating Christmas with his family on their farm in Indiana. The special was nominated for the 1988 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program; however, it lost to A Claymation Christmas Celebration . Contents. Synopsis. In a brightly decorated house, Garfield is awakened by Jon, dressed as an elf, who says that it is Christmas morning and Garfield must be treated to a large amount of lasagna before opening his presents. After Garfield finishes eating the lasagna, Jon presents him with a robotic Santa Claus that reads minds and produces whatever Garfield wants. Garfield is pleased with this, until Jon actually wakes Garfield up and it is revealed that Garfield was just dreaming. Jon tells Garfield that it is Christmas Eve, and that they are going to the countryside to celebrate Christmas with Jon's family on their farm. Garfield, not very keen on the idea, asks why they always have to go to the Arbuckle farm and wonders why Jon's family can never just come to Jon's house instead. Jon driving to his family's farm with Odie and a reluctant Garfield. As Jon, Garfield, and Odie drive off to the farm, Jon talks (and sings) about what Christmas was like when he was a boy, all the while Garfield makes sarcastic comments. They then arrive at the Arbuckle farmhouse and greet Jon's family (in their first animated appearance) - the sweet and always cooking Mom, hard-working farmer Dad, mischievous younger brother Doc Boy, and the tough-as-nails Grandma. After Grandma remarks that they need to go get dinner finished, Garfield observes that he and Grandma are going to get along just fine. Jon, Garfield, and Odie go outside for a walk, while Grandma spikes Mom's sausage gravy by adding chili powder. Jon and Garfield return inside for supper, while Odie gets to work on a secret project and then sneaks back into the house. Garfield goes and takes a taste-test of the incredibly hot sausage gravy, and declares that it is perfect. At dinner, Doc Boy is asked to say grace for the family, and Grandma bonks him on the head with a spoon when he doesn't know what to say. When he goes on too long with saying grace, Grandma bonks him on the head again. While Mom asks Jon which of the potatoes and pies he would like, Grandma sneaks some of her food to Garfield and Odie. Garfield putting the star on the tree. After dinner, they decorate the tree. They have trouble getting the star on the top of the tree, so Jon has Garfield do it, since he can climb trees. Garfield successfully makes it up the tree and puts the star on top, but then falls down the tree, knocking down some of the decorations. Next, Mom asks Doc Boy to play a song on the piano. He starts playing and singing "O Christmas Tree" terribly off-key, so Grandma shoves him aside and plays and sings the song herself. Afterward, Mom plays "Christmas in Your Heart", while Garfield goes to sit on Grandma's lap. Grandma tells him about her beloved, deceased husband, who always enjoyed Christmas even when he tried to pretend otherwise, and concludes by saying that Christmas Eve is the night she misses him the most. After finishing the song, Mom tells Dad that it is time for him to read Binky, the Clown Who Saved Christmas . Dad is not at all keen about this, as he is tired of reading the story every year, but reluctantly reads it anyway. Later that night, Odie sneaks out to the barn and Garfield becomes suspicious about the dog's activity. Garfield follows Odie to the barn and sees him making something out of a piece of wood, some wire, a plunger handle, and a hand rake. While there, Garfield stumbles upon some very old letters and finds out that it must be fifty years old. Meanwhile, Jon and Doc Boy unexpectedly wake Dad up at 1:30 a.m. and ask him if it is time to open presents, but Dad angrily tells them to go back to bed, despite Jon and Doc Boy arguing that it is technically Christmas morning now. Garfield gives Odie a hug. The next morning, after the family has just finished opening their presents, Garfield gives Grandma the letters he found in the barn. The letters, it turns out, were love notes written to Grandma by her husband from when they first met each other and married. Odie then reveals that he had been busy making a Christmas gift for Garfield - a homemade back-scratcher. In a rare glimpse at Garfield's sensitive side, Garfield gladly thanks Odie for the gift he made and says what he has realized about Christmas - "it's not the giving, it's not the getting; it's the loving." Songs. "Gimme" performed by Lou Rawls "Can't Wait Till Christmas" performed by Thom Huge and Lorenzo Music "O Christmas Tree" performed by Pat Carroll "Christmas in Your Heart" performed by ensemble and Desirée Goyette "You Can Never Find an Elf When You Need One" performed by Lou Rawls and Desirée Goyette "A Good Old-Fashioned Christmas" (ending song) performed by ensemble. The instrumental to "Here Comes Garfield", the titular theme song from the first Garfield special, can be heard in the post-title scene at the beginning (after Jon awakens Garfield from his dream). Broadcast history and availability. The special premiered on CBS on December 21, 1987, and was annually broadcast on the network (often alongside fellow comic strip-based special A Charlie Brown Christmas ) from then until 2000. It was later aired on ABC Family as part of the 25 Days of Christmas in 2008 and 2009. The special was made available on VHS in 1991. In 2004, following up the release of the first live-action Garfield movie, it was featured on 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's Garfield: Holiday Celebrations DVD, which also included Garfield's Halloween Adventure and A Garfield Thanksgiving . It was later made available again on Anderson Digital's Garfield Holiday Collection DVD, released on November 4, 2014; in addition to the three holiday specials, this DVD also included two other Garfield specials that Jim Davis considered his personal favorites - Garfield on the Town and Garfield in Paradise . A Garfield Christmas Special and A Garfield Thanksgiving were most recently included (this time without Garfield's Halloween Adventure ) on the Happy Holidays, Garfield! DVD, released by PBS Distribution's Skiprope division on September 12, 2017. Garfield's Night Before Christmas. Jim Davis was born on July 28, 1945 In Marion, Indiana. He grew up on a small farm where his father raised black angus cows and his mother raised 25 cats. At a young age, asthma forced him inside and to entertain himself, he began to draw. Not well at first, but well enough to know he liked it and could become good at it. After college, Davis went to work for an advertising agency for two years. During his two years at the agency, Davis drew a comic called "Gnorm Gnat" which ran in one newspaper. Davis was unable to sell the comic to more papers, but he continued to draw it for five years. On June 17, 1978, "Garfield" a comic about cats, began circulating in 41 newspapers. It now appears in over 2600 newspapers worldwide and is the most widely syndicated Sunday comic in the U. S.. Garfield has had dozens of bestselling books, a CBS television series and 13 prime time specials. 33 Garfield books have appeared on the New York Time's Bestsellers List, 11 hitting number 1. Seven titles appeared simultaneously on the list in 1983. Davis has won four Emmys for writing in the Outstanding Animated Program Category for "Garfield on the Town" in 1983, "Garfield in the Rough" in 1984, "Garfield's Halloween Adventure" in 1985, and "Garfield's Babes and Bullets" in 1989.