The Boar's Head Festival
Subtitle: a Christmas celebration
By: LaLonnie Lehman ; illustrated by Susan Halbower
Contributors: Halbower, Susan J., illustrator
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Fort Worth, Texas
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780875656267
Subjects: Winter festivals; American Christmas plays; Juvenile literature; Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival
Description: "A heavily illustrated volume for children and adults that tells the story of the Boar's Head Festival, a Christmas celebration incorporating such medieval legends as that of Good King Wenceslaus, the boar's head legend in which a ferocious boar is killed by a young Oxford scholar, and the Nativity story. The celebration is narrated and played out by beautifully costumed actors in medieval garb."--ECIP Summary.