Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday
Carol Ann Duffy
Illustrated by Tom Duxbury
17 November 2016Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
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...
Details
17 November 20165 minutes
Carol Ann Duffy
9781509853496Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
Duffy's spellbinding verse, spiced with witty, wintry illustrations, recaptures a magic most of us left behind in childhoodMaggie Fergusson, Intelligent Life
A tiny time machine that transports us to a frosty Cumberland in 1799Independent
