by Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas was married to Caitlin MacNamara, and they had three children. Among his most widely read works, aside from his poetry, are the stories in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Quite Early One Morning, and his delightful play for voices, Under Milk Wood.
ABOUT ELLEN RASKIN
Ellen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1928, grew up during the Great Depression, and began her career in the 1950s.
Raskin wrote, designed, and illustrated fifteen books, including The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)(1971), Moe Q. McGlutch, He Smoked Too Much (1973), and The Westing Game, for which she received the 1979 American Library Association’s Newbery Medal for the year’s most distinguished children’s book. She designed dozens of dust jackets, including the first edition of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic A Wrinkle in Time. Ellen Raskin died in 1984 at the age of fifty-six in New York City.
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This edition first published paperbound in 1959
Based on a design by Ellen Raskin
First published as New Directions Paperbook (ndp972) in 2003
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thomas, Dylan, 1914–1953.
A child’s Christmas in Wales / by Dylan Thomas ; with woodcuts by Ellen Raskin.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-0-8112-1731-6
ISBN: 978-0-8112-2470-3 (e-book)
1. Thomas, Dylan, 1914–1953 — Childhood and youth. 2. Thomas, Dylan, 1914–1953 — Homes and haunts — Wales. 3. Poets, Welsh — 20th century — Biography.
4. Christmas — Wales. 5. Wales—Social life and customs
I. Raskin, Ellen, ill. II. Title.
PR6039.H52C48 2007
821'.912—dc22
[B] 2007024727
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