The Book of Christmas

Book Overview

Acclaimed anthologist Fiona Waters has selected extracts from favorite poems and prose--both traditional and contemporary--to create an irresistible blend of Christmas magic, with writings by Ted Hughes, Christina Rossetti, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Graves, Dylan Thomas, e.e. cummings, and many more. This marvelous collection is illuminated throughout by the richly detailed illustrations of Matilda Harrison. By turns celebratory and joyous, nostalgic and poignant, The Book of Christmas is a lovely and enduring treasury.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843650061
• ISBN13: 9781843650065
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Anova Children's Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.5" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A vivid blend of rhymes and pictures parents and kids especially will enjoy

Matilda Harrison's drawings are lavish embellishments to the poems and stories gathered by anthologist Fiona Waters in The Book Of Christmas. Here are extracts from favorites old and new, providing a vivid blend of rhymes and pictures parents and kids especially will enjoy.