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Dorothy Wordsworth´s Christmas Birthday
Carol Ann Duffy
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Description for Dorothy Wordsworth´s Christmas Birthday
Hardback. Following Bethlehem, Wenceslas, The Christmas Truce, Another Night Before Christmas and Mrs Scrooge, the Poet Laureate offers another delightful and original Christmas poem. Fully illustrated, this covetable little hardback will be the perfect stocking-filler. Illustrator(s): Duxbury, Tom. Num Pages: 48 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.
When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow is her Christmas Birthday.
Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful poem Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday takes us to the frozen landscape of the Lake District, where a merry celebration is about to begin in the Wordsworths' cottage.
Gorgeously illustrated by Tom Duxbury, this festive poem evokes the snowy Lake District as Dorothy celebrates her ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
48
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447271505
SKU
V9781447271505
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Lannan and E. ... Read more
Reviews for Dorothy Wordsworth´s Christmas Birthday
Duffy's spellbinding verse, spiced with witty, wintry illustrations, recaptures a magic most of us left behind in childhood
Maggie Fergusson
Intelligent Life
A tiny time machine that transports us to a frosty Cumberland in 1799
Independent
Maggie Fergusson
Intelligent Life
A tiny time machine that transports us to a frosty Cumberland in 1799
Independent