Cerys Matthews' Under Milk Wood: An Illustrated Retelling

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Welcome to the small seaside town of Llareggub. Here you will find dreamers, workers, singers, sinners, the young, old, blue, bold and a mix of all inbetween. Here you will meet Captain Cat and Rosie Probert, Mr Organ Morgan and Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, Nogood Boyo, Mog and Myfanwy. Here you will watch a day in their lives play out - from a dark, moonless night to a morning that is busy as bees; from a sunny, slow lulling afternoon to a deep, drifting dusk. So, to begin at the beginning . . .

Dylan Thomas (Author) Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea on 27 October 1914, the son of a senior English master. On leaving school he worked on the South Wales Evening Post before embarking on his literary career in London. Not only a poet, he wrote short stories, film scripts, features and radio plays, the most famous being UNDER MILK WOOD and A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES. On 9 November 1953, shortly after his thirty-ninth birthday, Dylan Thomas died in New York city. He is buried in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, which had become his main home since 1949. In 1982 a memorial stone to commemorate him was unveiled in 'Poet's Corner' in Westminster Abbey.

I love this illustrated Under Milk Wood: it has captured so much of Thomas's original delight in language and in humanity -- Katherine Rundell, author of Rooftoppers A fantastic book, and a great Christmas gift idea -- Jonathan Pryce Now nobody is too young to enjoy my Grandfather's words. This illustrated version is outstanding -- Hannah Ellis, granddaughter of Dylan Thomas