Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief . We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children’s Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. I love her work and this has all the promise of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales…for a new generation. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes. Her many collections include Mean Time , Love Poems and The Bees , which won the Costa Poetry Award. In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street .

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. A beautiful festive gift from the award-winning poet Carol Ann Duffy, with captivating illustrations from Yelena Bryksenkov.In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street. Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has been an active publisher of Scotland’s history and archaeology since 1792.

Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T.You may find yourself back-straight watching a ballerina, poised to begin, or catch your lips moving in time with a festive song that drifts out into the night. A beautiful festive gift from the award-winning poet, Carol Ann Duffy, with captivating illustrations from Yelena Bryksenkov.