The Twelve Days of Christmas

by QuentinBlake (Illustrator), JOHNJULIUSNORWICH (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $3.37

  My dearest darling-
  
  That partridge, in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting, romantic, poetic present! Bless you and 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. And who but Quentin Blake could exploit the full comic possibilities of this hilarious debacle as first birds, then maids and finally the full percussion section of the Liverpool Philharmonic create mayhem in the calm of an English country Christmas?

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.37

  A delightful spoof of the old favourite carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas , which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer: from initial gracious gratitude for the delightful partridge in the sweet little pear tree through to dismay and distress and a final threatening solicitor's letter as a bacchanalia of pipers, scantily clad dancers and the full percussion section of the Liverpool Philharmonic create mayhem outside her door. The witty full colour drawings by Quentin Blake are a perfect accompaniment to the irrepressible humour of this sparkling little book.