A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas, Trina Schart Hyman (Illustrator)

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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.

New York Times

There is so much music in his voice that it carries the listener along, enchanted by the sound of the words and the rich imagery.

Saturday Review

He reads his verse and his prose with such melodious power, with such subtly and ardently projected rhythms, that ones feels that, good as it is, his poetry on the printed page is dull in comparison.

Harper's Magazine

The long, poetic, autobiographical A Child's Christmas in Wales is, to use a cliche in its exact sense, an unforgettable experience in the listening: surely this Christmas story ranks (in its spoken form, at least) among the great expressions of the language..

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