A highly illustrated gift book containing a festive flurry of classic and modern Christmas poems, chosen and illustrated by the Children's Laureate Chris Riddell. There are traditional verse such as The Night Before Christmas, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Deck the Halls, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, I Saw Three Ships, and We Three Kings. The poems are by Wendy Cope, John Agard, Neil Gaiman, Dylan Thomas, Roger McGough, Ogden Nash, Sylvia Plath, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Burns, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth, Benjamin Zephaniah and Jackie Kay among them. With index of first lines and of poets, decorated with fabulous line art, 120pp with satin pagemarker.
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