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  <title><![CDATA[A Child's Christmas in Wales]]></title>
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  <default-description>For almost half a century, Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales has entranced both young and old and has become a familiar part of the holiday-season landscape. With lovely poetic lilt, this simple tale captures the child's eye-view and an adult's warm remembrance of the time of presents, good things to eat, and, in the best of circumstances, newly-fallen snow.  A lost but not forgotten childhood is recollected. An ALA Notable Book.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1954</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>A Child's Christmas in Wales</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dylan Thomas]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The tiny, blue paperback version of Thomas' prose poem is adorned with minimalist, pattern-based woodcuts and published by New Directions. It is less than eight pages of solid text and is dense and desultory enough to warrant multiple back to back readings. The rapidly changing focus of the narrator...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17180596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This may have been my introduction to Dylan Thomas.  I may have first experienced it in the iconic Caedmon recording with Thomas, in his wonderful and too-often imitated BBC &quot;Welsh-singing voice&quot;, reading the tale of this one Christmas that was so much like the others so many years before....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52385674">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My grandfather used to read this story every Christmas at a community event in his town. We'd go see him read it every year, and there was one line in the story- &quot;Mr. Daniel looks like a spaniel&quot;, and every time he read it, I would burst into giggles (no matter how old I was, I thought tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40788123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who does not love boozy, bleary-eyed Dylan Thomas' childhood Christmas remembrance?  Anyone who has heard Thomas read this or any other poem aloud will hear his voice reverberating in their mind.  This book is a tiny treasure, and a special seasonal treat.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Trina Schart Hyman's sensitive illustrations really bring Dylan Thomas's text to life; in at least one instance, they provided me some necessary explanation. (What the heck is a child's nosebag? And how does one knit one?) The lyrical-brutal-magical memories Thomas chooses to relate come from severa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42379576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Long, long before I read Dylan Thomas, he read to me.  It started at Christmas.  Which I cannot recall, nor can I recall a childhood Christmas without him, sonorously, excitedly, rhapsodically evoking his own experience of the holy day and thereby formulating a bit of my own.<br/><br/>The recordin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42994322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thomas' poetic description of his memories of Christmas in Wales reminded me of Jean Shepherd's movie &quot;A Christmas Story&quot; for its nostalgia and colorful use of language.  I especially love this version of the tale because it's illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, my favorite illustrator, who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48778426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this little book. It's an anecdotal account of what a child's Christmas would have been like in Wales in the early 20th century. It's primary gift is in it's creation of the cozy atmosphere of the holidays in a simpler time. The best words to describe this book would be &quot;cozy&quot; an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40967653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This extended prose poem is a work of art to be enjoyed any time of year. The humor, the sweet memory, the scenery are palpable. I have always loved then ending, the going to bed on Christmas night, when the hubbub is over but the dreaming goes on. Trina Shart Hyman's illustrations in this edition a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41549498">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's a little sample: &quot;...and some few small aunts,<br/>                    not wanted in the kitchen, nor anywhere else for that<br/>                    matter, sat on the very edges of their chairs, poised<br/>                    and brittle, afraid to break, like faded cups and<br/>   ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64971979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a sucker for Christmas, and this dour Welsh adult description of a child's joy brought on by Christmastime in Wales is for me quite compelling.  I bought it so that my daughter and I could read it to a friend at Christmas, but she died before we could do that. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, found in young adult fiction, is supposedly a classic.  For me, it was a quick Christmas read.  I enjoyed the illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[such a lovely piece of christmas nostalgia.  and i just got another copy - this one beautifully illustrated with woodcut prints...everyone should reread this this week. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The 1985 Holiday House of A Child's Christmas in Wales is the version that remains on my shelf of Christmas books.  My favorite was a tiny blue book filled with woodcuts - it must have been given away as a gift - no matter.<br/><br/>From the beginning to the end one is captivated by Dylan Thomas' ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28367955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas (1959)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another christmas tradition in the Searle household. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tremndously evocative.]]></body>
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