"When A Christmas Carol was first published in 1843 it was an overnight success, and set a precedent that was to be followed by other Christmas books, including The Chimes (1844) and The Cricket (1845). Each book was published at the same time of year, in the same format, and extolled similar values about the virtues of love, charity and the family unit. But none would achieve the cult status of A Christmas Carol, a book so popular it has become part...

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories is a gift box full of Dickens's writings and reflections on the Yuletide season. It includes the full text of A Christmas Carol, featuring all eight illustrations from the first edition by John Leech, the artist who gave fanciful form to Dickens' vision of Scrooge, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and the spirits of Christmas. In addition, it includes "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton," a tale told...

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

"The classic holiday film The Muppet Christmas Carol comes to life in this illustrated storybook for kids. Narrated by The Great Gonzo as Charles Dickens, with help from his pal Rizzo the Rat, this fully illustrated children’s book retells the classic story of the beloved original film starring Michael Caine as Scrooge, Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, and Miss Piggy as Mrs. Cratchit. In the Muppets’ version of Dickens’s timeless tale, Ebenezer...

“Marley was dead, to begin with,” Charles Dickens tells us at the beginning of A Christmas Carol. But in Jon Clinch’s novel, Jacob Marley, business partner to Ebenezer Scrooge, is very much alive: a rapacious and cunning boy who grows up to be a forger, a scoundrel, and the man who will be both the making and the undoing of Scrooge. They meet as youths in the gloomy confines of Professor Drabb’s Academy for Boys, where Marley begins their...

"Monica Banks is a workaholic. There's no room in her life for home, family, or love. Until on snowy night when a ghost from Christmas past - a spirit named Ebenezer Scrooge - appears to take her on a journey through her own life to teach her that it's never to late to let the joy of the season into our heart..."--BOOK JACKET.

Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the three spirits of Christmas, who show him there is more to life than money and help him discover the true meaning of the Christmas season.

"Retold in verse and accompanied by Caroline Pedler's evocative illustrations, this [Christmas carol] is a story to provoke thought about the meaning of Christmas and leave the reader with a warm Christmas glow."--Cover back.

"...three Christmas spirits take Scrooge on a ghostly journey through life. Coming face to face with his past and present is bad enough, but what of his terrifying future?"--Cover, p. 4.

It starts the old miser Scrooge with Kermit as his long-suffering but ever-hopeful employee Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Cratchit's wife, and a host of Muppets (including the Great Gonzo as an unlikely Charles Dickens) taking other primary roles.