The Mookse and the Gripes

I just read Dylan Thomas’s prose/poem “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” (1954) and thought recommending it would nicely accompany my holiday greeting.  The phyiscal book itself is striking.  The high-quality paper is visible in the picture below as are some of the woodcuts that we find throughout this short but impactful book.  It’s a book best read in one sitting, and perhaps with little more foreknowledge than this: “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” begins with childish mischief in the form of snowball fights and ends with a nice Christmas night. 

I turned the gas down, I got into bed.  I said some words to the close and holy darkness, and then I slept.

Merry Christmas!