The Christmas Collection

by Hill Susan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.47

  In this collection the reader will find tales of Christmas past and present, in the country and the city, among the rich and the poor, the young and the old - Christmas in its many different moods and aspects. It includes lonely Mr Hegarty's moving discovery in King of Kings , a young girl's eventful last country Christmas in Lanterns Across the Snow , the fairy-tale magic of The Glass Angels and the award-winning nativity prose-poem Can It Be True? . Susan Hill is the author of Can It Be True? which was the 1988 Smarties Book Prize 6-8 years Category Winner, and I Won't Go There Again , Septimus Honeydew , Friends Next-Door , A Very Special Birthday , Beware Beware , King of Kings , The Glass Angels and The Walker Book of Ghost Stories . John Lawrence has twice won the Francis Williams Book Illustration Award, and twice shortlisted for the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award for Emily's Own Elephant and A New Treasury of Poetry . He also illustrated Watership Down .