A Child's Christmas in Wales (Godine Storyteller)
by Dylan Thomas
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Author: Dylan ThomasIllustrator: Edward Ardizzone
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1980-10-01
ISBN: 0879233397
Number of pages: 45
Publisher: David R Godine
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Book Review: More than a Christmas story.
Summary: 5 Stars
Scaring sleeping uncles by popping balloons. Getting a hatchet by mistake. Snowballing cats. Dylan Thomas has captured the perfect Christmas. Without any moral, very little plot, and a concern only for the child's perspective, this little piece sticks in my mind better than any other Christmas story I've ever read. Between drunk Auntie Hannah singing in the backyard and the haunted house down the streets where a group of mischievous carollers get the living hell scared out of them, "A Child's Christmas in Wales" is everything Christmas should be: funny, happy, poignant, a little sad, and fattening. Keep a bowl of candy nearby when you read it.
Summary of A Child's Christmas in Wales (Godine Storyteller)
This is one of Ardizzone's last books, and in our mind one of his best; a gentle and beguiling memoir of a Christmas spent in Cardiff when Thomas was a child. Ardizzone's quick, sure brushwork is not only the perfect complement to a timeless classic but a wonderful evocation of a gentle and seemingly endless Christmas in a faraway land made charming and endearing through language.Authors Books
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