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DescriptionA poem by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, celebrating the magic of Christmas during World War One. Published as a large format book with colour illustrations by David Roberts Promotion infoA poem by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, celebrating the magic of Christmas during World War One. Published as a large format book with colour illustrations by David Roberts Reviews‘A sublime stocking filler to last a lifetime for 10+ is Carol Ann Duffy’s poem The Christmas Truce, illustrated by David Roberts, about the night in the First World War in which British and German soldiers sang carols and played football in no man’s land’ --Amanda Craig, The Times Author descriptionCarol 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 and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was appointed Poet Laureate in 2009. In 2011 The Bees won the Costa Poetry Award, and in 2012 she won the PEN Pinter Prize. David Roberts has earned great acclaim for his distinctive illustrations. His previous work includes collaborations with his sister Lynn on retellings of several classic fairy stories – their book LITTLE RED was shortlisted for the 2005 Kate Greenaway Medal. In 2006 he won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award for his line drawings in MOUSE NOSES ON TOAST. David's first collaboration with Julia Donaldson |