Description
Very Good dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added, price-clipped. The Very Good binding is red cloth over boards with a black stamped engraving on front cover, black lettering on spine. Several nice wood engravings by John Lawrence. The binding is tight and pages are clean.
About the book: (from the dust jacket)
On a narrow London street the sweet-shop crackles with color. Red-ribboned chocolate boxes are piled high, trays of glazed fruit and bins of glistening candies ring the Christmas tree. Above the shop the cozy rooms are home for white-haired Mrs. Mutterance and for her “‘children,” young Amy and Wallace. And around the shop, over the whole of the City, drifts the greatest blizzard London has ever known. For the children it means sliding down Latchmere Hill on tea trays, for Mrs. Mutterance a sudden recollection of her own long-ago Cockney childhood.
But there is something else. Only the day before, the surly landlord, Snyder, had threatened to evict the little family from shop and home. Now Snyder has vanished. Is he lost in the snow? What should Mrs. Mutterance and the children do for the man she scornfully calls “Beanwit”? The answer is both exciting and heartwarming, Paul Theroux’s tale of a London Christmas adventure is a loving celebration of a time of mystery and joy, With Wood Engravings by John Lawrence.
About the author: (from the dust jacket)
Paul Theroux, distinguished author of The Great Railway Bazaar and such highly praised novels as The Consul’s file and Picture Palace, wrote his first book for young readers in response to his own children’s demand for a Christmas story in which they themselves would appear. London Snow is a companion piece to that book, A Christmas Card, which has received the following acclaim:
“Paul Theroux, fine storyteller that he is, tells a powerful tale in A Christmas Card … Strongly atmospheric, the story takes place in a New England snowstorm, has the ghost of an old man, snug cabins, a magical card that serves as a road map and a passport to the other world, and a fire that ‘burned holy and joyful, and sang in the chimney like the voice of an angel.'” New York Times
“This is a lovely tale, enhanced by the author’s vivid imagery and Lawrence’s pictures maybe a new Yuletide classic.’ Publishers Weekly
“Theroux’s first juvenile is as mood-sure and suitably populated as his adult fiction … A Christmas treat, elegantly and expertly crafted, which all ages can share.” Kirkus Reviews
