- Hardcover: 80 pages
- Publisher: HarperEntertainment (15 Nov 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0061782394
- ISBN-13: 978-0061782398
- Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 13.3 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,708,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An exuberant couple urged on by their love, make great sacrifices in order to purchase the perfect Christmas gift for the other. The husband sells his gold watch in order to buy expensive combs for his wife's luxurious locks. While the wife sells her hair to the wigmaker in order to buy a chain suitable for her husband's handsome timepiece. When all is revealed on Christmas Eve, the sweet irony of their dual generosity leaves them, whether they know it or not, as the wisest of gift givers: 'But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.' These adaptations are artfully produced and rendered for a modern, intelligent reader - the artist Joel Priddy employs the same twists of reciprocity in his own work and is well suited to adapting and updating this classic for a new audience.
About the Author
Joel Priddy's illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, and Cricket Magazine. His first graphic novel, PULPATOON: PILGRIMAGE, won an Ignatz Award for Outstanding Debut and was nominated for an Eisner as the year's best graphic novel. His work also appeared in BEST AMERICAN COMICS 2006. Joel teaches illustration and cartooning at the Memphis College of Art. He is presently hard at work on something or other. O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterisation and clever twist endings.
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Beautifully illustrated re-telling of one of my favourite Holiday tales
18 Mar 2012
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This is about the true meaning of Christmas. I have loved this story since childhood and bought it to share with my boys. My only disappointment is that it isn't bigger. It'd be wonderful if it was large enough to read in front of my son's class at the holidays but the book is too small for a group of children to enjoy the illustrations.
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