Classic Retellings-A Christmas Carol

Carnegie Medal winning author Tanya Landman delivers a refreshing and truly accessible retelling of Charles Dickens’ beloved Victorian Christmas classic. Scrooge is a greedy man with a heart of ice. He seems doomed to die alone and unloved. But one strange Christmas Eve, ghostly visitors come calling. Can they melt his heart and save his soul? Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas and believes that those who celebrate it should be boiled with their own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through their heart. But the arrival of the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley on Christmas Eve sets him on an other-worldly journey to show him the true value of the festive season. Charles Dickens’ beloved novella, with its message of redemption and transformation, has become an enduring classic and Christmas tradition. Carnegie Medal winner Tanya Landman now brings this timeless story to a new generation of readers in a heartwarming, accessible retelling. Carnegie Medal winning author Tanya Landman delivers a refreshing and truly accessible retelling of Charles Dickens’ beloved Victorian Christmas classic. It’s Christmas Eve and everyone is in the holiday spirit … all except miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge, who despises the holiday season. But when he’s visited by the ghost of his former business partner, who tells him he’ll soon encounter the three spirits of Christmas — Past, Present and Yet to Come — Scrooge is forced to confront his selfishness and embrace compassion, generosity and the true meaning of Christmas. Particularly suitable for readers aged 11+ with a reading age of 9.