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A beautiful festive gift from the award-winning poet Carol Ann Duffy, with captivating illustrations from Yelena Bryksenkov. 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. In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street . We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry.

Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T.

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has been an active publisher of Scotland’s history and archaeology since 1792. Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her best-known works include: Feminine Gospels, The World’s Wife, Rapture, The Bees and Sincerity and, as editor, 101 Poems for Children, Armistice and The Map and the Clock. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. I love her work and this has all the promise of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales…for a new generation.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street. Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief . Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief.

A beautiful festive gift from the award-winning poet, Carol Ann Duffy, with captivating illustrations from Yelena Bryksenkov. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.Her many collections include Mean Time , Love Poems and The Bees , which won the Costa Poetry Award.