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Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday Carol Ann Duffy

Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday By Carol Ann Duffy

Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday by Carol Ann Duffy


$15,49
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

A wonderful Christmas poem from the Poet Laureate

Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday Summary

Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday by Carol Ann Duffy

It is Christmas Eve, 1799, and Dorothy Wordsworth is awake in the dead of night. She stands outside in the winter cold, waiting patiently.

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.

Carol Ann Duffy's wonderful poem Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday takes us to the frozen landscape of the Lake District, where a merry celebration is about to begin in the Wordsworths' cottage.

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.

Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday Reviews

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

About Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 2009. Her collections include Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list.

Additional information

GOR006331718
9781447271505
1447271505
Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday by Carol Ann Duffy
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
2014-10-29
48
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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