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Frost Fair
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
Frost Fair
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
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Illustrated by David De Las Heras
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:48 | Dimensions(mm): Height 137,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Poetry by individual poets |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781509848171
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Classifications | Dewey:821.92 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Pan Macmillan
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Imprint |
Picador
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Publication Date |
31 October 2019 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Beautifully illustrated and produced in a gorgeous small format, this is an irresistible festive gift and Christmas stocking must-have for all book lovers.
Author Biography
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 Another Night Before Christmas, Mrs Scrooge, Wenceslas, Bethlehem, Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday 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.
ReviewsDuffy's spellbinding verse, spiced with witty, wintry illustrations, recaptures a magic most of us left behind in childhood -- Maggie Fergusson * Intelligent Life *
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