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This endearing tale of a young duck "who lived with his mother and his father and two sisters and three brothers and eleven aunts and seven uncles and forty-two cousins...on a boat with two wise eyes on the Yangtze River" is one of those timeless classics that always stay in print.
A bedtime story that never falls from favour, and a read-aloud delight.
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This endearing tale of a young duck "who lived with his mother and his father and two sisters and three brothers and eleven aunts and seven uncles and forty-two cousins...on a boat with two wise eyes on the Yangtze River" is one of those timeless classics that always stay in print.
A bedtime story that never falls from favour, and a read-aloud delight.
More story reading by Nicholas Hoare at:
bookreviewsandvideos.com/category/children-book-reviews
![The Twelve Days of Christmas [correspondence] by John Julius Norwich, illustrated by Quentin Blake](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_6zUu8b_-rc/mqdefault.jpg "The Twelve Days of Christmas [correspondence] by John Julius Norwich, illustrated by Quentin Blake
This delightful stocking-stuffer, of immense humour and charm, was originally published in 1998, and remains a Christmasy classic. Being thank you notes on the part of a well-bred lady to her invisible admirer, which increase in portent with each passing day (and delivery), these lead inevitably to a colourful showdown, involving an assortment of geese, maids-a-milking and questionable old men cavorting on the lawn.
Accompanied by Quentin Blakes peerless illustrations, a prime example of British humour at its seasonal best. Delectable!
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