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Thomas, Dylan

A Child's Christmas in Wales

48 pp. | Holiday | October, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8234-3870-9 $14.95
Reissue (1985)

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. Hyman's illustrations for Thomas's Christmas classic seem to have grown organically from the text, so fitting and evocative are they. Jewel tones in most interior scenes create a warm, cozy, intimate atmosphere; whites and grays for most exterior scenes transport readers of this small volume--here reissued with a bit more glitz, but not excessively so--to the Welsh seaside town of Thomas's childhood.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1985; November, 2017