The Twelve Days of Christmas - Hardcover

Public Domain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060276525 ISBN 13: 9780060276522

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

Synopsis

In this festive rendition of the popular Christmas counting song, Vladimir Vagin captures the lavish Christmas celebrations of old with timeless elegance. His detailed, jewellike paintings reflect a unique mix of cultures: the medieval Russian flavor of his native land and the Vermont countryside of his adopted home. This exquisitely crafted parade of ladies, lords, pipers, and drummers is sure to become a cherished part of holiday merrymaking for generations to come. The book includes a musical arrangement and an afterword about the song's origin as a cumulative memory game.

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public domain in law, legal availability for public use, free of charge, of materials, processes, devices, skills, and plans that are not protected by copyright or patent, including those on which copyright or patent has lapsed.
source: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2001-05 Columbia University Press.

From Booklist:

Vagin illustrates this traditional carol with detailed watercolors dominated by visual allusions both to his native Russia and to his present home in Vermont. A handsome couple wearing fur-lined cloaks and riding in an elegant sleigh evoke an air of old Russia; frozen ponds and waterwheels, snow-covered houses and barns speak vividly of New England. Each verse of the song is introduced in expansive double-spread paintings beautifully presenting the fanciful gifts. Scenes of a winter carnival show children with animal hats and masks and musical instruments having a wonderful time on a frozen pond. A piano arrangement is appended, along with a brief history of the song's origins as a game. Shelley Townsend-Hudson

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060276525
• ISBN 13: 9780060276522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Vagin Vladimir