So the shortest day came, and the year died: a poem about how humans have responded to midwinter – the fading of the light and its mighty return – for millennia, by a well known children’s author whose feel for brumal magic is second to none (think of The Dark Is Rising). One of those rare picture books that can be enjoyed and felt by all the grown-ups too. Illustrated by the incomparable Carson Ellis of Du Iz Tak? a few years ago.
