by Dylan Thomas (author) and Edward Ardizzone (illustrator)
This magical account of Dylan Thomas' own childhood and a Christmas Day in a small Welsh town has become a modern classic.
"There are always Uncles at Christmas. And Aunts, of course, who might sing a little loudly after dinner. There are the neighborhood cats, ‘sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered,’ the carols to sing at eerie houses, the Useful Presents and the Useless Presents, and the endless snow ‘shawling out of the ground."
Written in conversational prose, the anecdotal retelling of this Christmas is rich with the type of vivid language you’d expect from a poet such as Thomas.
