Customer Reviews

Childs Christmas in Wales

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Scaring sleeping uncles by popping balloons. Getting a hatchet by mistake. Snowballing cats. Dylan Thomas has captured the perfect Christmas. Without any moral, very little plot, and a concern only for the child's perspective, this little piece sticks in my mind better than any other Christmas story I've ever read. Between drunk Auntie Hannah singing in the backyard and the haunted house down the streets where a group of mischievous carollers get the living hell scared out of them, "A Child's Christmas in Wales" is everything Christmas should be: funny, happy, poignant, a little sad, and fattening. Keep a bowl of candy nearby when you read it.

Here's a little sample: "...and some few small aunts, not wanted in the kitchen, nor anywhere else for that matter, sat on the very edges of their chairs, poised and brittle, afraid to break, like faded cups and saucers." Delightful. Recommended.

Best when read aloud. I found my voice morphing into something approximating Richard Burton's. A terrific introduction to Dylan Thomas, particularly for children. But it's the adults who will appreciate the recounting of childhood memories.

This is a good quality hardcover. It has a nice dust cover and is printed on thick, cream-coloured paper. The book is beautifully illustrated and there's an illustration on every page. The illustrations are in colour on every second page.

The book is a perfect Christmas gift for a child, a parent or anyone who is young at heart.