The Twelve Days of Christmas

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They also considered that it was a way of dropping hints about the consequences of poorly idealised Christmas presents.

It makes me laugh out loud every time I read it and I keep it out (not just for Christmas) to read through it occasionally. The monologue is performed by the reading out of letters written by Emily Wilbraham to her lover Edward. Quentin Blake is one of Britain's finest illustrators, and best known for his own picture books and his collaboration with Roald Dahl. For the final letter, after Edward has sent members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic to her, [2] Emily's solicitor G. A friend recommended it to me and it has made my husband and myself laugh each time we read it, and reading it will become a Christmas tradition at our house.The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original Devon cream cloth covers, scarlet title and author lettering to the spine.

I had a hard copy of this book many years ago and loved it, but I must have lent it out as this year I could not find it. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Everyone knows the ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’, but not as rewritten by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence, which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer. Grove Press An imprint of Grove Atlantic, an American independent publisher, who publish in the UK through Atlantic Books. FIRST EDITION 1998, small 8vo, 185 x 135 mm, 7¼ x 5¼ inches, pale yellow cloth, gilt vignette and lettering, pale violet endpapers, (32) pages.

And who but Quentin Blake could exploit the full comic possibilities of this hilarious debacle as first birds, then maids and finally the full percussion section of the Liverpool Philharmonic create mayhem in the calm of an English country Christmas? And who but Quentin Blake could exploit the full comic possibilities of this hilarious debacle as first birds, then maids and finally the full percussion section of the Liverpool Philharmonic bring mayhem to the calm of an English country Christmas?