false 563820 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg 563820 23 809138 book 1954 A Child's Christmas in Wales total:445|5:235|4:126|3:70|2:12|1:2| 445 1915 578 62 57189 4.23 2911 285 6603 4.10 2599 353 17180596 266462 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 4 2 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 13:10:52 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 13:21:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 52385674 992478 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1958 Sun Apr 12 09:24:24 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 10:04:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 40788123 316566 1271612 0811217310 9780811217316 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182403282m/1271612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1271612.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.37 30 In print for over forty years, this gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old from its very first edition and is now a modern classic.

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a child's-eye view, and an adult's fond memories, of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow.

"One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment befor sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six."]]> 5 0 false Tue Dec 23 16:18:13 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 16:21:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 23770480 1180394 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 5 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1968 Thu Jun 05 09:37:44 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 12:34:58 -0800 2008 80996375 1262346 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 5 0 false Tue Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 13:17:56 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 13:39:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 42379576 163451 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 4 0 false Thu Jan 08 13:52:52 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 14:08:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 42994322 974210 6094435 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1233688486m/6094435.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6094435.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 5.00 1 "One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now & out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days & six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days & twelve nights when I was six.
All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold & headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged fish-freezing waves, & I plunge my hands in the snow & bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, & out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen.
It was on the afternoon of the Christmas Eve, & I was in Mrs. Prothero's garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats. Patient, cold & callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats. Sleek & long as jaguars & horrible-whiskered, spitting & snarling, they would slink & sidle over the white back-garden walls, & the lynx-eyed hunters, Jim & I, fur-capped & moccasined trappers from Hudson Bay, off Mumbles Road, would hurl our deadly snowballs at the green of their eyes. The wise cats never appeared..."]]> 5 0 false Sat Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 1955 Wed Jan 14 01:40:16 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 21:51:41 -0700 2009 12
The recordin...more...]]> 80683597 72919 99281 0879233397 9780879233396 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171435480m/99281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99281.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.12 32 4 0 false Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 13:03:52 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 13:12:44 -0800 2009 Dylan Thomas is one of my very favourite poets, and his Christmas memories have the perfect combination lyrical beauty and childish wonder he was famous for! I feel well festive now, although could it...more...]]> 81484876 1858241 2269499 0811213099 9780811213097 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2269499.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.50 2 A holiday classic in an elegant New Directions edition. With lovely poetic lilt, this simple tale captures the child-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-its wonder and its snowball mischief. This elegant and beautifully designed New Directions edition of Thomas's holiday classic features evocative woodcut illustrations by the noted artist Fritz Eichenberg.]]> 5 0 false Sat Dec 19 10:12:18 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 10:19:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 81468356 2442580 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 4 0 false Fri Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 05:00:40 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 05:25:43 -0800 2009 A Child's Christmas in Wales is like a little oasis of calm and quiet. 'Quiet' being a relative term: I read it annually, and every time I can hear Dylan Thomas' voice speaking the words to me from the p...more...]]> 48778426 316102 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 3 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 10 00:45:32 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 00:48:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 40967653 796292 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 3 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 17:49:47 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 17:53:25 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 79349231 2352482 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 4 0 false Sun Nov 29 18:34:09 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 18:37:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 41549498 1127864 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 5 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 19:01:58 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 19:04:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 64971979 1654645 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jul 25 22:24:49 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 22:25:00 -0700 2009 not wanted in the kitchen, nor anywhere else for that
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Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a child's-eye view, and an adult's fond memories, of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow.

"One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment befor sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six."]]> 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1965 Sun Dec 13 04:50:45 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 13 04:52:54 -0800 2009 too many to count 80409360 2425076 563820 0823405656 9780823405657 47 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175822380m/563820.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563820.A_Child_s_Christmas_in_Wales 4.31 355 5 0 false Wed Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 09:01:23 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 12:45:50 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=563820