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A Child's Christmas in Wales (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards))
A Child's Christmas in Wales - New York Times Best Illustrated Books Awards Author:Dylan Thomas By popular demand, the reissue of the classic little blue edition (with envelope) of the great Christmas classic. For over half a century Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales has enchanted both young and old and is now a traditional gift of the holiday season. Set in a small Welsh town on Christmas Day, this gem of lyric prose has... more » become a modern classic. With gentle humor the simple story captures a child's eye view, and an adult's fond remembrance, of a boy's magical time of presents, good things to eat, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, childhood friends, and, in the best of circumstances, newly-fallen snowits wonder, silence and snowball mischief. With this reissue, New Directions returns to the most popular format A Child's Christmas in Walesa booklet size that can be mailed in an accompanying envelope. Often compared with Dickens as "the twentieth century's A Christmas Carol," A Child's Christmas in Wales is now fast approaching a million copies sold.« less