
The Twelve Days of Christmas
David R. Godine Publisher Inc
Published on 1. October 2005
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-56792-300-1 (ISBN)
Description
On the first day of Christmas My true love gave to me A partridge in a pear tree. So begins one of the best-loved songs of the yuletide season. Its verses celebrate the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany, when the three Magi presented the baby Jesus with gold, frankincense, and myrrh - the very first Christmas gifts. Drawing inspiration from centuries-old illuminated manuscripts, Caldecott honor-medalist Ilse Plume here creates an Italian Renaissance setting for the lyrics of "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Plume's exquisite images, created in gouache and colored pencil, are rich in royal purple and gold, glowing vermilion and verdant green. In each, a beautiful, shy, young noblewoman with magnificent yellow tresses graciously receives a gift from her handsome Romeo: a brown partridge in a fruit-laden tree, two turtledoves in a golden cage...and, finally, twelve lords a-leaping, in the form of twelve ornamental figures for the lady's Christmas tree. This is a gift book that celebrates the joys of gift-giving. It includes sheet music and lyrics for the home musician.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
full colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-56792-300-1 (9781567923001)
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Person
Ilse Plume is a collector and illustrator of traditional songs and folktales from around the world. She is also the illustrator The Farmer in the Dell (also by Godine
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