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Frost Fair

Hardback

Main Details

Title Frost Fair
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Carol Ann Duffy, DBE
Illustrated by David De Las Heras
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:48
Dimensions(mm): Height 137,Width 129
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781509848171
ClassificationsDewey:821.92
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 31 October 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Reviews

Duffy's spellbinding verse, spiced with witty, wintry illustrations, recaptures a magic most of us left behind in childhood -- Maggie Fergusson * Intelligent Life *