Thomas, Dylan.

A Child’s Christmas in Wales. With Woodcuts by Ellen Raskin.

Fourth Printing. New York, James Laughlin, 1959. 15 cm x 13.5 cm. Pages not numbered. Woodcut prints on every other page. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Blindstamped, private library-stamp on endpaper.

“This humourous, sad, magical, irresistible account of a Christmas day in a small Welsh town has become a modern classic” (blurb from dustcover). The gorgeous woodcuts help animate the story and lend to it’s childlike quality. A very cute and well kept treasure.

Ellen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 13, 1928. She was an American children’s writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children’s mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975. In 2012 The Westing Game was ranked number nine among all-time children’s novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with a primarily-U.S. audience. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: 20th Century · 20th Century Literature · Catalogue Two – Children’s Books · Children’s Books · Children’s Books Rare · Children’s Literature · Children’s stories · Christmas · Christmas in Art · Wales · Wales Folk History · Welsh · Welsh History – Rare · Welsh Literature · Welsh Literature – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 60220AB

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