A story to be read aloud.......
by Maxine
....preferably on a cold, snowy night. So, right now, that's true for anyone in Michigan. Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales evokes Christmases past when a man's memories of boyhood holidays included putting out a house fire with snowballs and an uncle playing fiddle while an aunt drank a bit too much parsnip wine. Told in lilting, musical language, this classic story published in 1955, still evokes smiles and laughter. Following are the first few lines:
"One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six."
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