Product Description

A charming account of Dylan Thomas's own childhood and of a Christmas Day in a small Welsh town. This book has become a popular classic and includes illustrations by the award-winning Edward Ardizzone.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #89219 in Books
• Published on: 1993-09-30
• Binding: Hardcover
• 48 pages

Synopsis
A charming account of Dylan Thomas's own childhood and of a Christmas Day in a small Welsh town. This book has become a popular classic and includes illustrations by the award-winning Edward Ardizzone.

About the Author
Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea in October 1914, the son of a senior English master. On leaving school he worked on the South Wales Evening Post before embarking on his literary career in London. Not only a poet, he wrote short stories, film scripts, features and radio plays, the most famous being Under Milk Wood. He died in November 1953, shortly after his thirty-ninth birthday. He is buried in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, which had become his main home since 1949. Edward Ardizzone was born October 16, 1900 in Haiphong, French Indochina (now Vietnam) and moved to England when he was five years old. He wrote and illustrated the story of Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain for his own children; Oxford University Press published it in 1935 with great success. This book led to several more in the popular "Tim" series. Ardizzone won the first Kate Greenaway Medal in 1956 for Tim All Alone and was named Commander, Order of British Empire in 1971. He died in 1979.

Customer Reviews

The Best Christmas Book Written
This story is my favourite Christmas read. Every year without fail me dad has read this to my family on Christmas eve. It is a tradition that we all love, even my eldest sister who is now twenty two years old. The story appeals to people of all ages as it reminds you of Christmases may have had as a child, the joy of falling snow, the fun of getting resents that will irritate your parents and friends, and most of all being with the family.

If you have never read this book or any of Dylan Thomas' books then this is a good place to start. I hope that you enjoy reading it yourself or to others as I have done.

A Christmas classic in homes throughout the world.
Dylan Thomas made hours of recordings of his poems, stories and plays, but none is as endearingly personal as this distillation of his childhood Christmases in Swansea. Yet in creating it, Thomas located something universal. As an American, I had no trouble identifying with the young Welsh boy who celebrates his holiday in equal doses of humour and wonder.

And Thomas's performance is unforgettable. Put a log on the fire, pour a cup of tea and let the poet's rich, deep voice take you straight to the heart of Christmas.