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Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0008706549
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781407248448
Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2014-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780879235291
For almost half a century, Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales has entranced both young and old and has become a familiar part of the holiday-season landscape. With lovely poetic lilt, this simple tale captures the child's eye-view and an adult's warm remembrance of the time of presents, good things to eat, and, in the best of circumstances, newly-fallen snow.
Author : Amanda Peet
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0553510614
For anyone who's ever asked "Why can't we have a Christmas tree?" comes a lighthearted story about being Jewish during the holiday season—by actress Amanda Peet! Rachel Rosenstein is determined to celebrate Christmas this year—and the fact that her family is Jewish is not going to stop her. In a series of hilarious and heartwarming mishaps, Rachel writes a letter to Santa explaining her cause, pays him a visit at the mall, and covertly decorates her house on Christmas Eve (right down to latkes for Santa and his reindeer). And while Rachel may wrestle with her culture, customs, and love of sparkly Christmas ornaments, she also comes away with a brighter understanding of her own identity and of the gift of friends and family. Inspired by actress Amanda Peet's experience with her own children, Dear Santa, Love, Rachel Rosenstein is sure to be a new holiday classic! "Will help introduce young readers to other cultures while allowing them to preserve the magic of their own."—Booklist "Actress Peet and her friend/coauthor Troyer, both newcomers to children’s books, handle Rachel’s obsession and her family’s strong sense of religious identity with equal empathy and humor."—Publishers Weekly "There’s lots of humor in the text and in the lively, scribbly, colorful illustrations. But the authors wisely don’t gloss over Rachel’s feelings—which can be common for anyone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas that time of year, a notion that steers the text toward a happy, multi-culti ending."—The Horn Book
Author : Elizabeth J. Duncan
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429984104
With A Killer's Christmas in Wales, Elizabeth J. Duncan delivers a delightful holiday-themed mystery. As the townsfolk of the Welsh valley town of Llanelen settle in for the snowiest winter in twenty-five years, an American stranger arrives. Harry Saunders charms the ladies, one of them in particular: Evelyn Lloyd, the town's former postmistress, who was left comfortably off after the death of her husband. After Mrs. Lloyd invests a good deal of money with him, Harry goes missing, as does her money. His body is soon discovered outside the walls of Conwy Castle, and Mrs. Lloyd is implicated in the murder. Although Penny Brannigan and her business partner, Victoria Hopkirk, are busy overseeing the grand opening of their new spa, that doesn't stop Mrs. Lloyd from desperately seeking Penny's help to prove her innocence. It's quite possible that Harry made other enemies while in Llanelen and Penny's investigation unfolds while she juggles her work at the spa, her growing relationship with Detective Inspector Davies, and the Christmas window competition that she signed up to judge.
Author : Jessica Harrison
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0241396719
The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space. Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlof's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irène Nemerovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.
Author : Max Brallier
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698193202
Ice King stood at the window of his castle. “I HATE Christmas,” he cried out. “What a miserable hassle! People celebrating, dancing and stuff! To them all I say, ‘Bah! Hum butt!!!’” Adventure Time takes on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol in this beautifully envisioned deluxe jacket picture book. This is the perfect holiday gift for all Adventure Time fans. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Janet Ahlberg
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Big books
ISBN : 9780582435193
Storytime Giants provides large-format versions of favourite picture stories by well-known authors. This is a rhyming text.
Author : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780228961
This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas' short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surface of Welsh life to the inimitable comedy of his later autobiographical writings. With PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG and ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE, Thomas found a new voice for his irreverent memories of lust and bravado in south-west Wales and London, leading to a sequence of classic evocations of childhood magic and the follies of adult life. The definitive collection of Dylan Thomas' short stories, showing just why he is considered one of the 20th century's finest writers. Also featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.
Author : J. K. Rowling
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1338790250
A heartwarming, page-turning adventure about one child's love for his most treasured thing, and how far he will go to find it. A tale for the whole family to fall in love with, from one of the world’s greatest storytellers. One boy and his toy are about to change everything... Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens -- DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life... even toys. And Jack’s newest toy -- the Christmas Pig (DP’s replacement) – has a daring plan: Together they’ll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost, and to save the best friend Jack has ever known...