The Twelve Days of Christmas

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Quentin Blake is one of Britain's finest illustrators, and best known for his own picture books and his collaboration with Roald Dahl. Grove Press An imprint of Grove Atlantic, an American independent publisher, who publish in the UK through Atlantic Books. The gifts eventually cause a breakdown in their relationship, with Emily's house and gardens being ruined by all the birds, animals, and personnel that Edward sends.

Corvus Atlantic’s commercial fiction list which includes women’s, historical, romance, sci-fi, crime and thriller. Everyone knows the 'Twelve days of Christmas', but not as rewritten by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence, which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer.Each day for twelve days, Edward sends her one of the gifts mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" carol and Emily responds with a letter for each day. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

Everyone knows the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’, but not as rewritten by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence, which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original Devon cream cloth covers, scarlet title and author lettering to the spine. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. They also considered that it was a way of dropping hints about the consequences of poorly idealised Christmas presents.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The monologue is based upon letters written by a woman to her lover who sends her each of the gifts mentioned in the song, resulting in mayhem in her village house and the breakdown of the lovers' relationship.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine and upper board titles and decoration; unpaginated (32pp. It was published by Atlantic Books and is based upon the Christmas carol " The Twelve Days of Christmas". It is an easy read and as a literacy tutor, I wanted something for the children to read in the run up to Christmas.The monologue is performed by the reading out of letters written by Emily Wilbraham to her lover Edward. A friend recommended it to me and it has made my husband and myself laugh each time we read it, and reading it will become a Christmas tradition at our house. FIRST EDITION 1998, small 8vo, 185 x 135 mm, 7¼ x 5¼ inches, pale yellow cloth, gilt vignette and lettering, pale violet endpapers, (32) pages.