Mrs Scrooge
A Christmas Tale
Mrs Scrooge is a delightful Christmas poem from Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Published as a small hardback and filled with bright illustrations by Posy Simmonds, this modern take on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens makes a perfect Christmas gift.With her husband, Ebenezer, now 'doornail dead', the coldest Christmas Eve on record finds Mrs Scrooge outside the supermarket, protesting against consumerism and waste. 'Spoilsport!' shout the passersby as they load up their shopping carts with Christmas goodies. Just as Ebenezer did, Mrs Scrooge keeps to her frugal ways . . . but with the current state of the world, perhaps Mrs Scrooge has th…
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Weitere Autoren: Simmonds, Posy (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-0-330-51511-5
- EAN: 9780330515115
- Produktnummer: 17368037
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Masse: H14.8 cm x B13.2 cm x D1.2 cm 124 g
- Gewicht: 124
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written for both children and adults, and her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward Prizes and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. Her other beautifully illustrated Christmas poems include Another Night Before Christmas, The Christmas Truce, Wenceslas, Bethlehem, Dorothy Wordsworth's Christmas Birthday and The Wren-Boys. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. Her collections include The World's Wife, Love Poems, Rapture and The Bees which won the Costa Poetry Award.
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