We Wish You A Merry Christmas and Other Festive PoemsChris RiddellLabel: Macmillan Children's BooksDescription: A flurry of festive verse We Wish You A Merry Christmas and Other Festive Poems is a collection selected and intricately beautifully illustrated by Chris Riddell the beloved author and illustrator behind Goth Girl Ottoline and the Cloud Horse Chronicles.Christmas has long been a source of inspiration and a moment of reflection for poets from traditional verse to modern works. This is the perfect collection for readers young and old as gorgeous illustrations throughout bring new life to classics including The Night Before Christmas The Twelve Days of Christmas Deck the Halls We Wish You a Merry Christmas and We Three Kings.Elsewhere Chris has selected and responded to work from poets including Neil Gaiman Sylvia Plath William Wordsworth Thomas Hardy Hollie McNish Sue Hardy Dawson Roger Stevens Benjamin Zephaniah Clare Bevan Sara Teasdale A.F. Harrold Alfred Lord Tennyson Ogden Nash Robert Burns and Jackie Kay. This is a book to treasure and to return to year after year.'A touching book for getting into the spirit with poems familiar and less so about the meaning of Christmas and each page graced with Riddell’s pencil scenes' – Sunday Times
