Summary
This retelling of Dicken’s classic A Christmas Carol has many pencil illustrations throughout. The characters are reenvisioned as animals, with the main characters depicted as rabbits. (See flip-though video at the end for illustration examples.)
Mom Thoughts
This review assumes you know the original work by Dickens well enough that you know the language/questionable behaviors/and more from it and this review will address the changes from the original and other thoughts.
Joe Sutphin has again wonderfully reenvisioned a classic tale to make it more accessible to younger readers. He is faithful to the original text, and if you are a fan you will find very few changes. His black-and-white illustrations are tremendously charming, and he crafts the woodland animal Dicken’s Christmas of your dreams. (That’s a normal dream, right?)
About this work Sutphin says,
“I made some gentle revisions to the original text to line up better with the woodland setting. That included a few tweaks to some terminology that might not be common enough for today’s young readers, as well as removing reference to actual locations on Earth (London, United States, etc). A couple of references to actual literature were also edited out, and I reworded a few moments in which female characters weren’t spoken of appropriately enough. Ultimately, I wanted to keep the quotable factor of the original intact while ensuring that the story could be a 1-night read-aloud that parents can hopefully get through without having to stop and explain things to young kids repeatedly.”
Sutphin achieves exactly what he set out to do, and if you are a fan of the original, I have no doubt you will be overjoyed with this edition that beckons the family to come, sit, and read.
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At A Glance
| Number of Pages | Number of Staves |
|---|---|
| 144 | 5 |