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Farmer Fisher Russian Christmas Side One

Farmer Fisher Side One

Farmer Fisher Side Two

Farmer Fisher Russian Christmas Side Two

Reviews

Fun story ,music, great illustrations

Highly recommended fun story which has

music/song as free download .There are wonderful illustrations on every page by the author , very deserving of being a former number 1 children's book of the year

Peter H

So Glad this is once more in print

Had this when the kids were small way back in the late 70's early 80's and have been looking for a long time to find it again. One of the best and most fun books for young children and the young at heart. The original came with a tape of the song, now you have to download it but that no doubt makes it cheaper. Highly recommended I am certain no one could ever regret its' purchase.

Gillie

Great Fun

My children loved this when it first was published. I haven't had chance to read it to my grandsons yet, but I was delighted to realise I had remembered most of it. (I'd scribbled my version in the back of a children's poetry book when I realised the original was missing).

Bookworm

The Author

JONATHON XAVIER COUDRILLE was conceived on the Lizard peninsula in a whitewashed cottage called ‘Wy Worrie’. He spent his romantic early years on the road learning guitar, banjo, voice projection and knife-throwing and, attended the last Dame School in the Cotswolds where he fell in love with books while his glamorous mother coped with cooking over a stick fire and his Artist father carved a trajectory through Variety Theatre to become an early Television Star.

Banished (gratefully!) from his boy's school, Coudrille spent the 1960s in Saint Ives as a painter and folk singer until, recruited by the BBC, he left for London. His broadcasting career was truncated by the car-crash that catapulted him into print; immobile with spinal damage, he wrote and illustrated for his young son “A Beastly Collection” (Warne 1974) now much-collected and “Farmer Fisher” (Deutsch), chosen as 1976 Children’s Book of the Year. He has played at the Festival Hall, painted in North America, Southern Africa, Russia and the Far East and toured globally with Kazatka Cossacks, returning to The Lizard in 1990 for the birth of his daughter.

Past Honorary Artist member of The Arts Club, member of Chelsea Arts Club Melody Maker Top Soloist, South-West Academician and past trustee and, Poet (his anthology ‘Love Death and, Bad Behaviour' was published in 2014 by Footsteps Press) he divides his time between writing, painting, his eclectic jazz trio "Gwelhellin", his studio and, his labyrinthine garden on the Cornish cliffs. Wikipedia defines him as a Polymath.