Tag: a Child’s Christmas in Wales

• Christmas comes to Narnia

  It’s Christmas Eve, which is why the blog is red, and I’m celebrating with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by CS Lewis, in an old Puffin edition with illustrations by Pauline Baynes. The children hear the sound of tinkling bells… “It was a sledge, and it was reindeer with bells on their harness.…

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  December 24, 2011

  a Child’s Christmas in Wales, Narnia

• All the Christmases are One

  One of  Edward Ardizzone’s illustrations for  A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Day Nine of the advent Bookfest, and it’s Dylan Thomas, with A Child’s Christmas in Wales, an amalgam of all the Christmases you’ve ever known, a magical mix of myth and reality. As he says:  “One Christmas was so much like another, in those…

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  December 9, 2011

  a Child’s Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas