Anna Wright has rapidly developed a following across the UK for her print, collage work & paintings, following in the footsteps of Emma Bridgewater, Tricia Guild & Liberty as she takes her designs across stationery & homeware. She is now embarking on her third picture book for children. Anna brings humour, beauty & sophistication to this perennially popular Christmas hymn, with her signature style. Exquisitely rendered in pen, ink, watercolour & collage, The twelve days of Christmas are beautifully & playfully reimagined for today`s readership
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Ladybird`s ” Twelve Days of Christmas” is a sturdy board book perfect for sharing with young children at Christmas time. It contains the full Christmas song with all twelve verses, from twelve drummers drumming & eleven pipers piping down to the partridge in a pear tree! ” The Twelve Days of Christmas” is perfect for helping the whole family learn all the words to this festive favourite. With bright images to count on every page. It is also great for young children mastering their first numbers; as they count up to twelve & all the way back down again. This is perfect stocking filler for every young child at Christmas! ...

` On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree...` The lyrics to this well-known, traditional Christmas song, have been transformed into a brightly coloured picture book, with illustrations by Moldovan artist violeta Dabija. ...

My dearest darling- That partridge, in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting, romantic, poetic present! Bless you & thank you. Your deeply loving Emily Everyone knows the ` Twelve days of Christmas`, but not as rewritten by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence, which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer. & who but Quentin Blake could exploit the full comic possibilities of this hilarious debacle as first birds, then maids & finally the full percussion section of the Liverpool Philharmonic create mayhem in the calm of an English country Christmas? ...

Introduce children to the traditional song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, in this beautiful new book, featuring illustrations by Britta Teckentrup. The peep-through pages reveal each new Christmas gift, creating a stunning layered effect. A perfect gift for your true love! ...

The big day has almost arrived & one little puppy is very excited about his first EVER Christmas. But with three drooling Dalmatians, six sausage-snaffling Scotties & every dog in town helping out, the festive season is a shambles! Will everything be ready in time for Christmas Day? Children will love picking their favourite dogs & spotting the puppy in busy scenes. This hilarious picture book is a great way to introduce children to Christmas traditions. ...

Before she became the nineteenth-century's heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Florence Nightingale & Gustave Flaubert traveled up the Nile at the same time. In reality, they never met. But in The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, they ignite a friendship marked by intelligence, humor, & a ravishing tenderness that will alter both their destinies. On the surface, Nightingale & Flaubert have little in common. She is a woman with radical ideas about society & God, naive in the ways of men. He is a notorious womanizer, involved with innumerable prostitutes. But both are at painful crossroads in their lives & burn with unfulfilled ambition. In Shomer's deft hands, the two unlikely soulmates come together to share their darkest torments & fervent hopes. Brimming with adventure & the sparkling sensibilities of the two travelers, this mesmerizing debut novel offers a luminous combination of gorgeous prose & wild imagination, all of it colored by the opulent tapestry of mid-nineteenth century Egypt. ...

Before she became the nineteenth century`s heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Florence Nightingale & Gustave Flaubert traveled up the Nile at the same time. In reality, they never met. But in The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, they ignite a friendship marked by intelligence, humor, & a ravishing tenderness that will alter both their destinies. On the surface, Nightingale & Flaubert have little in common. She is a woman with radical ideas about society & God, naive in the ways of men. He is a notorious womanizer, involved with innumerable prostitutes. But both are at painful crossroads in their lives & burn with unfulfilled ambition. In Shomer`s deft hands, the two unlikely soulmates come together to share their darkest torments & fervent hopes. Brimming with adventure & the sparkling sensibilities of the two travelers, this mesmerizing debut novel offers a luminous combination of gorgeous prose & wild imagination, all of it colored by the opulent tapestry of mid-nineteenth century Egypt. ...

` Eleanor Henderson is in possession of an enormous talent` Ann Patchett `A superb novel whose roots can be traced to Harper ...

In this completely hilarious & gloriously absurd story, the pair behind the tales of Captain Najork explore just what happens when a man builds a new table.. .a table sturdy enough for even an elephant to dance on. ” This table, ” said the man. ” What about the table?” said the woman. ” It`s wearing me out, ” said the man. What to do? The man makes a decision. He finds a tablewood tree, cuts it down, saws it up & makes a new table. There`s nothing like a new table. This one is strong enough for elephants! But...” Where would we get the elephants?” said the woman. ” Advertise in the Classified Section, ” said the man. ” Elephants wanted for table work. Must be agile.” It looks as if the man & the woman might need some more tables! ” We could open a restaurant, ” said the man. A restaurant with dancing elephants.. .where will it all lead?! ...