A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas draws readers into a boy's snow-blurred memories of Christmas in a Welsh seaside town, where no two holidays can be separated and all of them shimmer together like one long, glittering afternoon. Firemen pour into the Protheros' smoke-filled parlour, useless presents are catalogued with gleeful absurdity, uncles doze by the fire, and carol singers flee a mysterious voice through a keyhole. Thomas captures the specific, fleeting magic of childhood — the cold hands, the daft games, the music rising through a moonlit, smoke-colored night.

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