12 Days of Christmas
12 Days of Christmas
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books - Quarto Books
Just the Series: The Christmas Choir   

Series and Publisher: The Christmas Choir   

Annotation: Celebrate the magic of Christmas time with this well-loved traditional poem, The Twelve Days of Christmas , beautifully illustrated by Lara Hawthorne.
Genre: [Music]
 
Reviews: 4
Catalog Number: #219783
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Copyright Date: 2020
Edition Date: 2020 Release Date: 10/06/20
Pages: 1 volume (unpaged)
ISBN: 0-7112-4540-1
ISBN 13: 978-0-7112-4540-2
Dewey: 782.42
Dimensions: 28 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
Starred Review for Kirkus Reviews (Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 CDT 2022)

A veritable holiday feast for the eyes.Hawthorne's illustrations have a busy, folk-art style that will invite readers to pore over pages to find the animals, items, and people named in this old Christmas carol. Foil detailing on the cover art adds festive flair to the book's design, but readers who associate Christmastime with wintry scenes will not find snowy landscapes here. An abundant use of light green in the grounds around the country house where the action unfolds lends a fresh feel to the picture book, perhaps offering a reminder that people in warm climes and in the Southern Hemisphere celebrate Christmas, too. Also welcome is the artist's inclusion of a multiracial cast of people in later verses. Readers are invited to play an I spy sort of game with the pages, seeking out everything from the single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming at the book's end. In most cases, the art, like the song itself, is cumulative in its presentation, though a marvelously spare double-page spread illustrating "five gold rings" eschews the finely detailed, more-distant scenes to instead present a close-up view of hands holding those rings laid out on small cloth decorated in red, green, and blue. This visual pause evokes the slower pace of that line in the song, clearly demonstrating the thoughtfulness with which Hawthorne approached her illustration.Encore! (full lyrics, author's note, game) (Picture book. 2-12)

Horn Book (Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2020)

With a similar look and sensibility to her Silent Night (rev. 11/18), Hawthorne presents a homey, folksy version of the carol (written in the 1700s per a conversational appended note) that's not old-fashioned. The folk art-style illustrations, in digitally edited gouache, depict a verdant rural scene; as our narrator contemplates her ever-more-crowded home, gifts spill out of doors and into the surrounding countryside. A creamy background provides the white-of-the-page, while spreads are filled nearly to the brim with subdued hues and patterns galore. A lively cast of players winds in and out of scenes -- culminating with the narrator's "true love" (another woman) pictured amidst flourishes of hearts and stars beneath that pear tree. A search-and-find spread concludes the book. Elissa Gershowitz

Kirkus Reviews (Fri Oct 04 00:00:00 CDT 2024)

A veritable holiday feast for the eyes.Hawthorne's illustrations have a busy, folk-art style that will invite readers to pore over pages to find the animals, items, and people named in this old Christmas carol. Foil detailing on the cover art adds festive flair to the book's design, but readers who associate Christmastime with wintry scenes will not find snowy landscapes here. An abundant use of light green in the grounds around the country house where the action unfolds lends a fresh feel to the picture book, perhaps offering a reminder that people in warm climes and in the Southern Hemisphere celebrate Christmas, too. Also welcome is the artist's inclusion of a multiracial cast of people in later verses. Readers are invited to play an I spy sort of game with the pages, seeking out everything from the single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming at the book's end. In most cases, the art, like the song itself, is cumulative in its presentation, though a marvelously spare double-page spread illustrating "five gold rings" eschews the finely detailed, more-distant scenes to instead present a close-up view of hands holding those rings laid out on small cloth decorated in red, green, and blue. This visual pause evokes the slower pace of that line in the song, clearly demonstrating the thoughtfulness with which Hawthorne approached her illustration.Encore! (full lyrics, author's note, game) (Picture book. 2-12)

Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

Artist Hawthorne deftly weaves together traditional and contemporary strands in a nuanced interpretation of this 18th-century French carol, with detailed, richly hued naïf art created in gouache and edited digitally. Spotlighting a young woman-s charming cottage and the lush surrounding countryside, the illustrations share the verse-s cumulative nature, initially revealing the aggregate gifts she receives each day and, in subsequent spreads, reprising them in various combinations. Joining the narrator in each scene are her dog, cat, and resident mouse, whose frisky antics young readers will enjoy spotting. Hawthorne caps off this buoyant romp with a gleeful panorama that showcases the entire cast and offers a search-and-find challenge-while the narrator and her newly pictured true love, another woman, look on. Ages 2-5. (Oct.)

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Starred Review for Kirkus Reviews (Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 CDT 2022)
Horn Book (Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2020)
Kirkus Reviews (Fri Oct 04 00:00:00 CDT 2024)
Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)
Reading Level: 1.0
Interest Level: P-2

"​On the first day of Christmas 
my true love gave to me
a partridge in a pear tree."

Celebrate the magic of Christmas time with this well-loved traditional poem, The Twelve Days of Christmas, beautifully illustrated by Laura Hawthorne.

Take a walk through each beautiful scene brimming with details that will remind you of the sights, sounds and smells of Christmas. Perfect to read with your true love.

This is the second title in the series, The Christmas Choir, which beautifully illustrates beloved Christmas carols. Don't miss Silent Night, the first title in the series.  


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