The Twelve Days of Christmas – William Morris and Liz Catchpole
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| The Twelve Days of Christmas - William Morris & Liz Catchpole |
The harbacked cover is a tactile pleasure, smooth to touch
but still lightly textured. I ran my fingers lightly over it many times before
I opened it. The pages, too, are a heavy and easy pleasure to turn, though long
may you linger on them.
Palette wise, it retains the celebratory reds and golds we associate with Christmas, but favours a blue instead of green, suggesting, to me, a slight departure from typical commercialism (for a gift book).
The book uses twelve William Morris designs with additional
illustrations by Liz Catchpole. The arts and crafts style of Morris mean that
the pages are always busy and include repeated elements – wonderful for curious
eyes. The text, however, is the simple lines of one of my favourite Christmas songs, 'The Twelve Days of
Christmas', with its fun and tongue-tying repetitions.
A different sort of Christmas book that is great for
counting games and a good old sing-along, and features a diverse representation
of people on its pages.
Publication details: Puffin/V&A, November 2016, London,
hardback
This copy: review copy from the publisher
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