Description
| Product ID: | 9781447271505 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | BE |
| Title: | Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday |
| Authors: | Author: Carol Ann Duffy DBE, Tom Duxbury |
| Page Count: | 48 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A wonderful Christmas poem from the Poet Laureate <p>It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.<br><br>When the new day breaks it will bring family and friends to Dorothy's door. For tomorrow is a double joy: tomorrow is her Christmas Birthday.<br><br>Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful poem <i>Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday </i>takes us to the frozen landscape of the Lake District, where a merry celebration is about to begin in the Wordsworths' cottage.<br><br>Gorgeously illustrated by Tom Duxbury, this festive poem evokes the snowy Lake District as Dorothy celebrates her birthday with her brother William Wordsworth and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-11-06 |
