In print for over forty years, this gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old and is now a modern classic.The classic little blue edition with matching mailing envelope to send as a holiday gift. Dylan Thomas, one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a childs-eye view, and an adults fond remembrance, of a magical time of presents, aunts and uncles, the frozen sea, and, in the best of circumstances, newly fallen snow?its wonder, silence, and snowball mischief.This edition published by New Directions is the most popular format of A Childs Christmas in Wales?a booklet size that can be mailed in an accompanying envelope.