Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday (Hardback)

Carol Ann Duffy (author), Tom Duxbury (illustrator)

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Hardback 48 Pages
Published: 06/11/2014

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Synopsis Authors

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.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781447271505
Number of pages: 48
Weight: 116 g
Dimensions: 138 x 131 x 13 mm

MEDIA 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

Carol Ann Duffy

A playwright and writer, Carol Ann Duffy is best known as one of Britain’s most popular and critically acclaimed poets and currently holds the post of Poet Laureate. Her best-known works include: Feminine Gospels, The World’s Wife, Rapture, The Bees and Sincerity and, as editor, 101 Poems for Children, Armistice and The Map and the Clock.

Visit the Carol Ann Duffy author page