A Christmas Carol
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Even the youngest readers can enjoy Charles Dickens’s classic Christmas tale in this beautifully illustrated picture-book version of the holiday favorite, simple to read but with all the magic of Dickens’s voice preserved.
Follow miserly Scrooge as he is whisked through the night by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come in order to face his selfish treatment of Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and Tiny Tim. Families will enjoy reading this shortened version of Dickens’s story together, with its warm illustrations that capture every twist and turn.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
All the key elements of Dickens's seasonal ghost story remain intact in this skillful adaptation. McKeown (the Young Reader's Shakespeare series) streamlines the story while remaining true to the language and eerie aspects of the original. "Jacob Marley was as dead as a doornail," he begins; of Scrooge, he writes, "If he had a heart, it was frozen solid." McKeown moves briskly through Scrooge's Christmas Eve visitations from the spirit of his former partner, as well as those who show him the joy and pain of his past, the error of his present greedy ways, and a grim potential future. Kelley, too, is unafraid to embrace the story's spooky elements Marley's ghost charges into Scrooge's room in an unholy burst of blue-white light, while the hood of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come offers the hint of a gleaming skull. Ages 4 8.
