Ben's Christmas Carol

This book is a wonderful take on Dicken's Christmas Carol, with beautifully garbed and set Victorian mice taking the roles of Scrooge (Ben) Tiny Tim (Tim) and Jacob Marley (Jake). Ben is prooved wrong when he thinks greed will overtake Christmas spirit, and like Scrooge, learns a happy lesson in the end. For younger children, you may need to summarize - the text is complicated! But they will enjoy the basics of the story and looking at the wonderful paintings/illustrations. Since Christmas stories are a tradition, this book will be a great Christmas read for older children - ages 8-12.

The story of 'A Christmas Carol' is told through the eyes of Ben; a young mouse. As we see the mice story going on you can see the human counter-parts as well. The pictures are beautiful! Ruth Brown out-does herself in bringing Dickens' London on the 1800's to life. Make reading this book a part of your yearly Christmas tradition.