Letters from Father Christmas

Paperback edition of Tolkien's famous illustrated letters from Father Christmas includes extracts and pictures not included 25 years ago in the original publication. Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R.Tolkien's children. Inside would be a letter in strange spidery handwriting and a beautiful coloured drawing or some sketches. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how all the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas's house into the dining-room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house! Sometimes the Polar Bear would scrawl a note, and sometimes Ilbereth the Elf would write in his elegant flowing script, adding yet more life and humour to the stories. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by the inventiveness and 'authenticity' of Tolkien's Letters from Father Christmas. 'Letters from Father Christmas' has been reformatted into an attractive and affordable new paperback format, with the inclusion of every one of the delightful letters and pictures that Tolkien sent to his children.

ISBN 0007205228   Pages 112 ISBN13 9780007205226 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 364 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers   Published in London Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd   Height (mm) 246 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 189 Publication date 02 Oct 2006   Spine width (mm) 8 Non-book description Hardback   Academic level Preschool DEWEY 823.912   Interest age From 7 To 12 DEWEY edition DC22

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