Lucy & Tom's Christmas (Picture Puffin S.)

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Lucy & Tom's Christmas (Picture Puffin S.)

Lucy & Tom's Christmas (Picture Puffin S.)

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I used to read it every Christmas to my children when they were young and now I'm reading it again to my grandchildren. The quiet joys of Christmas preparations and the day itself, with great sympathy for a child's perspective. I also love the English flavor of these books, fun to point out expressions like "cross" that may not be so familiar to American children.

Shirley Hughes’s illustrations have the same effect as discovering an old reel of cine film buried in the loft. One of the loveliest things to do at Christmas is cuddle up and enjoy a good picture book together – and these classic stories have really stood the test of time. Lovely time for read aloud with what I think are British traditions of Christmas pudding (Lucy and Tom stir), making cards, how they decorate and even what they give as gifts to each family member.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

And be sure to check out my bio page to learn a little about me and the Picture Book/Chapter Book Calendars I sell on Etsy! The illustrations are so detailed and the story is very cute with hilariously accurate depictions of children’s emotions. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the first recipient of BookTrust's Lifetime Achievement Award. This wonderful heartwarming story was read to me as a child and brings back so many happy memories as I now have the privilege of reading it to my niece.Content surprises are super annoying, especially when you’re 100+ pages in, so here’s my attempt to help you avoid that! Shirley Hughes is the illustrator of more than two hundred children’s books and has won many prestigious awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal twice.

Shirley Hughes was born in West Kirby, near Liverpool, in 1927, and studied fashion and dress design at Liverpool Art School, before continuing her studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. This wonderfully evocative Christmas book reminds me so vividly of my own childhood Christmases, with my mother making mince pies at the big wooden kitchen table and the Salvation Army playing Christmas carols. She also collaborated with her daughter, Clara Vulliamy, on the Dixie O'Day series; which saw Shirley with an illustrator for the first time with Shirley writing the text and Clara creating the illustrations.Didn’t realize that until adulthood :) bought this book as soon as my daughter was born to read to her each Christmas season. She won the Kate Greenaway Medal twice and was awarded the OBE for her distinguished service to children's literature. In 1930s Liverpool, young Bronwen and Dylan find kindness from an unexpected source when they are frightened by what they think is a ghost on Christmas Eve. My boys found it inspirational--and pointed out that we did Christmas crackers earlier in the week rather than at Christmas dinner. We talk about the differences in the way these children celebrate Christmas in England and they celebrate Christmas in the states.



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