'A Child's Christmas In Wales', by Dylan Thomas

'A Child's Christmas in Wales', by Dylan Thomas

illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman

'One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the 

sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the 

voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether 

it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or  whether it 

snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six....

Read the rest of the prose work here

'A Child's Christmas in Wales' was originally emerging from 

a piece written for radio, and the poem was recorded by Thomas in 1952. 

The story is an anecdotal retelling of a Christmas from the view of 

a young child and is a romanticised version of Christmases past, 

portraying a nostalgic and simpler time

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