A Christmas Carol in Prose : Being a Ghost Story of Christmas - Hardcover

Dickens, Charles; Skarmeas, Nancy J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824940962 ISBN 13: 9780824940966

Publisher: Ideals Childrens Books, 1998

Synopsis

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Portsmouth, England, in 1812, Charles Dickens became one of the most widely read and dearly beloved authors the English language has yet known. Throughout his career, he used his fame and reputation to support institutions that helped the poor, to promote improved public education, and to encourage the wealthy toward charitable giving.

This book features the art of Russ Flint. This abridged edition of Christmas Carol comes alive with his vivid watercolors. Flint has illustrated dozens of childrens books. He lives in Northern California with his wife.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-5?This adaptation conveys the flavor of the classic story but does not capture its spirit. The production has a textbook look, with introductory notes, captions below the many paintings, and old-fashioned watercolors that seem too bright for this mysterious, wintry tale. The abridgement uses a lot of Dickens's prose, but is choppy. (Use of colons is suspect throughout.) Much superior, if a shortened version is needed, is the edition illustrated by Scott Cook that was abridged by Dickens himself (Random, 1993; o.p.).?AC
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ideals Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0824940962
• ISBN 13: 9780824940966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Flint Russ