The Book Depository Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
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Price: £7.99
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Description: Another Night Before Christmas : Hardback : Pan Macmillan : 9780330523936 : : 05 Nov 2020 : Carol Ann Duffy's twenty-first-century reworking of this Victorian Christmas classic is filled with her characteristic warmth, wit and imagination. Illustrated by the sophisticated, romantic and truly original Rob Ryan, it's the perfect gift this Christmas. The Book Depository Another Night Before Christmas by Carol Ann Duffy, DBE - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: The Book Depository
Product ID: 9780330523936
MPN: 9780330523936
GTIN: 9780330523936
Author: Susan Rose
Rating: 5
Review: This is a modern reinterpretation of the poem 'Twas the night before Christmas', and reading this is a lot more enjoyable if you have read the original. This poem has the same humour and lyrical rhyme scheme as the original, but is modernised and talks about TV and celebrities. The plot is a girl who sets out to find if Santa is real, (anymore would spoil it), and the story is so charming it made me feel very christmasey. The illustrations, (see below), are simple but very beautiful, they are black silohettes on white, so it looks almost like shadow puppetry. All in all this is a tiny book which makes it a perfect stocking filler and I would recommend it as a Christmas gift for the children in your life or just the adults who get irrationally excited by the magic of the season, (like me). Also there is no mention of any religion in the poem, so would be an equally good gift for an atheist who celebrates Christmas and a Christian.
Author: Ms H
Rating: 2
Review: The Book was smaller than I expected - palm size square, and the font is quite small to read. If I'd realised, a Kindle purchase would have been better so that I can enlarge the text.
