How have I missed this delightful book all of my life! Dylan Thomas' recollection of childhood Christmas in Wales is whimsical, poetic, humorous. Peter Bailey's illustrations are charming. This will be a definite re-read each Christmas season. 
 "Miss Prothero...said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said: 
 'Would you like anything to read?'"