Twelve Day of Christmas illustrated by Rachel Griffin

The Twelve Days of Christmas

This version of the Twelve Days of Christmas is one where you will want to linger over the scrumptious embroidered illustrations. The text is the traditional poem but Rachel Griffin interprets each verse with colourful collages of patchwork. I especially love the page with the five gold rings adorning a beautiful elephant. This book also comes with a CD. You can see two pages here.

For her fabric-art illustrations, Griffin used beads, buttons, sequins, shells, mirrors, faux jewels, and a wide variety of fabrics and trimmings combined with embroidery details to create her images for each day of gift-giving. Kirkus

This version of the Twelve days of Christmas was first published in 2002 - but a new edition was published in 2015 and so this book is currently available.

Here is a new book illustrated by Rachel Griffin:

Here is another beautiful book which we did have in my previous school library: