The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Poems


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A wonderful collection of poems for older children at Christmas.




The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems


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Gathers poems by Whittier, Hughes, Chesterton, Hardy, Graves, Hopkins, Eliot, Herrick, Kipling, and Longfellow about Advent, Christmas, winter, and New Year's Day




My First Oxford Book of Christmas Poems


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The winter landscape at Christmas, the story of the Nativity, the celebrations of the season and the coming of the New Year-these are explored through more than 120 poems, both old and new. Included in this wonderful illustrated collection are poems by Ted Hughes, John Betjeman, W.H Auden, Tomas Hardy, Michael Rosen and many, many more.







The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems


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More than 100 poems, old and new, to celebrate the Christmas season.







The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Stories


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Christmas has always been a time for telling stories, and this collection draws on that tradition to create a wonderful mixture of stories for the festive season. It includes stories about presents and surprises; about family quarrels and loneliness; about both happy and sad times - and, of course, about ghosts. It all adds up to a thought provoking and absorbing collection which brings together stories about all the different faces of Christmas, and what it means to us.




The Oxford Treasury of Christmas Poems


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This is a lovely anthology of poems for the whole Christmas season. There are traditional carols and songs, and modern poems about children's experiences of Christmas: food and families, presents and celebrations, and the snow and ice of winter. The collection is both reflective and joyful and includes contributions from Eleanor Farjeon, Roger McGough, Judith Nicholls, U.A. Fanthorpe and Gareth Owen, among many others. With beautiful colour illustrations throughout, this collection makes a perfect gift at Christmas.




The Oxford Book of Christmas Stories


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An anthology of thirty stories by many best-loved writers, such as Charles Dickens, Laurie Lee, Sue Townsend, Jacqueline Wilson, and Geraldine McCaughrean. Illustrations in colour and black and white by a range of artists complement the text. This is a treasury that gives a wide-ranging feelof Christmas and the seasonal celebrations that surround it, and one that will be read and enjoyed year after year.




Christmas Poems


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A late-flowering poet who was the imaginative voice of the chronically ignored and a witty sceptic of conventional thinking.