An Irish Country Christmas

By: Alice Taylor

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Synopsis: In this holiday gift edition, Alice Taylor returns to share the warm glow of a child's Yuletide celebration. Her tales of the season and the Irish countryside sparkle with magic. [From The inside dust jacket Flaps:] "The magic of Christmas was out in the moonlit haggard with the cattle and down the fields with the sheep but most of all it was here in the holly-filled kitchen with the little battered crib under the tree and the tall candle lighting in the window. The candle was the light of Christmas and the key that opened the door into the holy night." Beloved by readers on both sides of the Atlantic for her warmly remembered tales of Irish childhood, Alice Taylor now returns to reacquaint us with the joyful glow of a child’s Yuletide celebration in An Irish Country Christmas. In these pages she conveys, as no other author can, the delight that lies in every detail of the festive season for a young child. Her Irish countryside is like an archetype of everyone’s ideal Christmas landscape: a world where the season came with holly bundles and real geese to capture for the holiday dinner. Most of all, her storytelling reminds us of the unsentimental, wondrous innocence of youth, where every snow-dusted corner holds a surprise, and the lighting of the Christmas candle marks the commencement of magic. If Charles Dickens had written from rural Ireland instead of

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 134 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780312135232
Publisher:: St. Martin's Press
Date of Addition:: 12/12/17
Copyrighted By:: Alice Taylor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Animals, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality
Submitted By:: Larry Lumpkin
Proofread By:: Lissi
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.