The Illustrated Christmas Cracker
Editorial ATLANTIC BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher ATLANTIC BOOKS
- ISBN13 9781782392514
- ISBN10 1782392513
- Type BOOK
- Pages 64
- Published 2013
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Subjects
Children's Literature In EnglishThe Illustrated Christmas Cracker
Editorial ATLANTIC BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book details
For over forty years, John Julius Norwich has been sending out his Christmas Crackers - a personal collection of quirky quotes and literary odds and ends - to his friends instead of a Christmas card. In The Illustrated Christmas Cracker Quentin Blake has made his own selection of favourite pieces and has illustrated them in his own trademark style. From curious dictionary definitions ('Carphology. Delirious fumbling with the bedclothes,' Concise Oxford Dictionary) and tortuous palindromes ('Live dirt up a side-track carted is a putrid evil') to eighteenth-century accounts of drunken pigs and Benjamin Franklin's account of inventing bifocals, this cracker is stuffed with surprising, offbeat, often hilarious gems. Enlivened by Quentin Blake's witty illustrations, this book is the perfect stocking-filler for the discerning customer.