Today's #patcadvent is On Christmas Eve, a wordless book illustrated by Peter Collington. The Christmas tree angels are gathering candles so they can make a landing strip for Santa so he doesn't miss the little girl. This book was very special to me as a child; I'm not sure how well known it is? ~C

Day thirteen of the Prudence and the Crow advent is The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, a book Prudence and I recently re-read. Full of dark and ancient things, this makes for a marvellous Yuletide read... #patcadvent

Day 12 of #patcadvent is Petunia's Christmas written and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. Originally published in 1952, Petunia is a slightly unhinged goose whose object of affection, Charles the gander, is destined for the farmer's Christmas table. Don't worry though - this story has a happy ending.

'tis the season!

Day 12 of #patcadvent is Petunia's Christmas written and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. Originally published in 1952, Petunia is a slightly unhinged goose whose object of affection, Charles the gander, is destined for the farmer's Christmas table. Don't worry though - this story has a happy ending.

Oh how I love those gloriously unhinged vintage Christie covers.

Watching a celebrity house tour, "A lot of the books in this house I've like, *personally* gone out to buy..." imagine a life where the books just arrive, chosen for you, I thought, laughing, and then I thought oh wait, we literally run a subscription box doing...exactly that...

Day eleven of the Prudence and the Crow advent is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Published in 1962, this book has a wonderful original style to it, boldly mixing watercolours with collage. Words and illustration by Ezra Jack Keats. #patcadvent

Day 10 of the Prudence and the Crow advent is The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken, illustrated here by Rohan Eason. Crow was genuinely scared of this one when she was small! I'm still quite bothered by these hungry wolf faces...

It is early in the #pqtcadvent for me already to have got confused about days but here we are, and it's a shame because Day 8 was a good one! Onwards though...

Here, in a cosy evening edition for Day 9 of #patcadvent, the tiny child characters of Wind in the Willows have come to carol sing at Mole's house. It is a delightful scene, and Crow has been telling me at length how absolutely adorable it is in the TV series.

Day 7 of #patcadvent is Noggin the Nog by Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin. The animated tv series began in 1959, with books: 1965-77. 'Listen to me and I will tell you the story of Noggin the Nog, as it was told in the days of old by the men of the Northlands, as they sat by their great log fires…'

Day 7 of #patcadvent is Noggin the Nog by Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin. The animated tv series began in 1959, with books: 1965-77. 'Listen to me and I will tell you the story of Noggin the Nog, as it was told in the days of old by the men of the Northlands, as they sat by their great log fires…'

Day 6, #patcadvent winter-y, seasonal-ish read is Soonchild, by Russell Hoban, illustrated by Alexis Deacon. It's a very peculiar, different piece of storytelling, audience unclear, which leaves you with a fair bit to reflect on. The illustrations make this quite the experience 💙📚

Day 5 of #patcadvent is Shirley Hughes' Snow in the Garden: A First Book of Christmas. I have to admit to not having heard of this lovely anthology of winter stories, poems, recipies and crafts until this year. Published in 2018, every page is decorated with Shirley Hughes' beautiful illustrations.

Day 4 of #patcadvent is Lotta's Christmas Surprise by Astrid Lindgren. Lotta saves Christmas with the aid of her tenaciousness and ever-present toy pig, Bamsen 🐖🎄 Tragically out of print in its English translation so if you see a copy be sure to snap it up! Illustration by Ilon Wilkland. 💙📚

Day 3 of #patcadvent is Waiting for Christmas by Monica Greenfield. Published in 1996, Waiting for Christmas follows the gentle adventures of two children as they decorate the tree, visit relatives and generally look forward to Christmas Day. Illustration by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.

Merry #patcadvent Day 2! Moving westwards for this beautiful illustration, often used as a cover, by Edward Ardizzone, for Dylan Thomas' A Child's Christmas in Wales. If you've not heard Thomas reading it himself, very much recommend tinyurl.com/achildschris... where you can hear this in full.

Welcome once again to Prudence and the Crow Advent! Follow along (or mute!) with the hashtag #patcadvent We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation? Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚

Today (1st December) is the last day to buy a Yuletide bundle!

Welcome once again to Prudence and the Crow Advent! Follow along (or mute!) with the hashtag #patcadvent We begin with John Masefield's The Box of Delights - an intensely wintery tale. Perhaps you remember the (frankly a bit scary) '80s BBC adaptation? Illustration: Sara Ogilvie 💙📚

It's that time of year again! Tomorrow is the 1st of December which means it's time for our most beloved annual tradition - the Prudence and the Crow Advent! This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.

It's that time of year again! Tomorrow is the 1st of December which means it's time for our most beloved annual tradition - the Prudence and the Crow Advent! This year sees the return of the Prudence and the Crow advent greatest hits. Each day we'll pull a post from one of our past eleven year's.

We will be doing the #patcadvent posts this year and it's another Best Of, revisiting a decade of our posts of bookish illustration and artwork! You may, of course, mute the tag, which pre-coffee me promises to try to remember to use (why I commit myself to these early morning tasks, who can say...)

📚 50% off ebooks because capitalism i guess use code UGHFINE or you could just buy them! up to you 📚 www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks

today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️ drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):

Anyone have any good recommendations for short story / fiction / general written stuff subscriptions at this time? Any genre, any size (mainstream, independent, individual), digital or physical - I feel like it's a long time since I looked around!

This is our only offer of the year, no discounts, deals, Cyber Monday bits and pieces, just one Yuletide bundle!

🎁 If you're in the UK and you need a fun little gift for a book lover, or someone you'd like to turn into a book lover, or even for yourself…Prudence and the Crow have got you covered! 📖💝

The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here! Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...

Fully recommend this for Hard To Buy For folks, such as my parents, who will be getting these for the third year on the trot.

The PatC Yuletide Bundle 2025 is here! Just £6 inc UK P&P: a vintage paperback in the genre of your choice, wrapped seasonally with a library card and a sweet or a tea - a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa, or little winter treat for yourself 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...

If you're wondering if we'll be doing our usual Yuletide offering this year, the answer is yes, yes we will, keep an eye out over, oo, the next day or so :)

Wondering if I want to listen to this - I have such a love/trauma relationship with Wind in the Willows... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Watching a random Canadian YouTube video and this YouTuber has already shown us so many solid PatC books, I have never felt so connected to Canada...

NEW in the #patcshop - J R R Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo. Unwin Press 1981. Paperback. £15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...

NEW in the #patcshop - J R R Tolkien's translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo. Unwin Press 1981. Paperback. £15 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/j-r...

absolutely let's do this!

NEW in the #patcshop - C E Lucas Phillips' The Greatest Raid of All. A fully illustrated account of WWII's "Operation Chariot" with multiple maps, drawings and maps. The Companion Book Club, 1958 FIRST EDITION. £12 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/c-e...

A joy and privilege to be a juror for Best Short Story at the BFS Awards this year: this was the most discussion I can remember having, across a very competitive field. Huge congratulations to the winner, which you can read for free here at Uncanny Magazine: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...

A joy and privilege to be a juror for Best Short Story at the BFS Awards this year: this was the most discussion I can remember having, across a very competitive field. Huge congratulations to the winner, which you can read for free here at Uncanny Magazine: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...

Finished both this and the drinks: all excellent. Yoshimoto has such a magnificent line in identifying the sharp, transformative moments in life as small narrative twists that feel like little pinches as I read. 💙📚

GIVE ME YA Jackson Lamb you cowards!

This is my Hallowe'en reading gift for Crow this year, and whilst I've not read it myself yet, it looks absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful edition, as all reads from @averyhill.bsky.social always are! 💙📚

becoming increasingly convinced that the best way to push back against AI slopification of everything is via BOOKS. Physical, paper books. An object you can trade, gift to people, carry around, stick your nose in and smell, and generally attach yourself to.

NEW in the #patcshop - The Novels of George Eliot by Barbara Hardy. The Athlone Press 1963 edition. Apparently, "...the whole book must be carefully read by everyone concerned with form in the novel". So now you know. £5.25 inc UK P&P. #bookmail 💙📚 shop.prudenceandthecrow.com/products/the...

My favourite time to read was in class, during the teacher going on about whatever they were possibly teaching. Silent reading time was useless to me but I'm always grateful for the teachers that left me alone to plough through whatever was in the classroom instead of doing a geography or whatever.

If you've 11-odd hours spare, a full reading of 1984 from Senate House in London might be just the ticket (courtesy of @ucl.ac.uk and the Orwell Foundation, back in 2017) 💙📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...

If you've 11-odd hours spare, a full reading of 1984 from Senate House in London might be just the ticket (courtesy of @ucl.ac.uk and the Orwell Foundation, back in 2017) 💙📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk...