The Thirteen Days of Christmas. Jenny Overton. T. Nelson, - Christmas stories - pages. 2 Reviews. A young girl's suitor sends her a different and unusual present every day of the Christmas season and inspires the well-known song. From inside the book. What people are saying - /5(2). The Thirteen Days of Christmas. On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree We all know this classic Christmas song, but what if someone really did send you all of those gifts? Where would you put all the geese a-laying? Not to mention the lords a-leaping! Jenny Overton grew up in a Surrey village that is still her home today. After taking a degree in English she spent most of her working life as an editor and wrote several books for children. She wrote The Thirteen Days of Christmas as a story for her younger sister/5(29).
Author: Jenny Overton. Series: Holidays Seasons, Christmas. Genres: Chapter Books, Juvenile Fiction. Tags: Ages 12 Up, Ages ASIN: ISBN: The Thirteen Days of Christmas: We all know this classic Christmas song, but what if someone really did send you all of those gifts? Jenny Overton's The Thirteen Days of Christmas is set in England at some unspecified time in the past. Certainly long before the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas" was invented; this purports to be the story of how it came into being. Jenny Overton is the author of one of my favourite Christmas stories, The Thirteen Days of Christmas*, which is a humorous retelling of the famous Christmas www.doorway.run only wrote four novels for children, before her career as a book editor made her too busy for her own fiction.
Surely this ought to apply to Christmas reading as well. Jenny Overton’s The Thirteen Days of Christmas is set in England at some unspecified time in the past. Certainly long before the carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” was invented; this purports to be the story of how it came into being. Jenny Overton grew up in a Surrey village that is still her home today. After taking a degree in English she spent most of her working life as an editor and wrote several books for children. She wrote The Thirteen Days of Christmas as a story for her younger sister. The Thirteen Days of Christmas by Jenny Overton is a charming little story, beautifully illustrated by Shirley Hughes. Annaple tries hard to look after her father, two brothers and sister following the death of their mother. They see her as a terrible nag who cannot cook. Her brothers decide that she really needs to get married.
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