Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday by Carol Ann Duffy
A wonderful Christmas poem from the Poet Laureate
Duffy's spellbinding verse, spiced with witty, wintry illustrations, recaptures a magic most of us left behind in childhood -- Maggie Fergusson * Intelligent Life *
A tiny time machine that transports us to a frosty Cumberland in 1799 * Independent *
A tiny time machine that transports us to a frosty Cumberland in 1799 * Independent *
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, the PEN Pinter Prize, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. Her other beautifully illustrated Christmas poems include Mrs Scrooge, Another Night Before Christmas, The Christmas Truce, Wenceslas, Bethlehem and The Wren-Boys. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her collections include The World's Wife, Love Poems, Rapture and The Bees which won the Costa Poetry Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781447271505 |
| ISBN 10 | 1447271505 |
| Title | Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday |
| Author | Carol Ann Duffy Dbe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2014-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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