A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Review #9

Product Details
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Classical Comics (November 25, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906332517
ISBN-13: 978-1906332518


Product Description from Amazon.com
One Christmas Eve, after being particularly cruel to his employee, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley, who tells him that he will be visited by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, Future. Each ghost shows him things that rekindle the joy and spirit of Christmas within his heart and awaken his goodwill toward his fellow man. In typical fashion, Dickens deals with social injustice in a way that transcends the 19th century. This illustrated version of the classic holiday tale is brough to life with an illustrated Character List (like a Dramatis Personae), 134 pages of color story artwork, and fascinating support material that details the life and work of Charles Dickens as well as information on Victorian England.


My Review:

I really loved this graphic novel version of one of the most famous Christmas stories of all time. This is my second reading of the story in two years I own the original version. The graphic novel version did not disappoint. It brought the characters of the Dickensian class to life of paper comic book style.

Your teen would love this book if they are more of a visual reader. It has the original text of the novel complete with illustrations for easy understanding of the story. I would recommend this for anyone who has kids who are visual learns so they can learn to appreciate this timeless classic.


I rate this a 5/5

FCC Discalaimer: I borrowed this book from the library and I am an Amazon associate. I was did not recieve in compensation for this review and this is solely my opinion.

12 hour Mystery-a-thon Update of Day One

I found out about this today so I decided to join since I am reading a mysteries for the Cozy Mystery Challenge. I hope to complete 1 book and have good chunk of a second book done. I am spreading my hours out over 2 days. Today I completed 6 hours and tomorrow another 6.

So far I have read 176 pages out of 272 readable pages of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD by Charles Dickens. I hope to complete this by tomorrow morning. The I hope to start on the the True Crime novel : Every Breath You Take by Anne Rule.

So far I signed up for one book giveaway and I will try to do the Weekly Geeks sometime tomorrow. I am exhausted for the night so I will update you on twitter tomorrow on my progress.