A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
#tbt features A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It was originally published in 1843 and became an instant bestseller. Over the years, a variety of illustrators have interpreted the classic story. It is Christmas Eve and the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge will have none of this Christmas nonsense. He resents the fact that his loyal clerk, Bob Cratchet wants the day off. While dining alone that night, he is visited by the ghost of his partner and only friend, Jacob Marley, who entreats Ebenezer to change his ways and tells him that he will be visited by three ghosts - the Ghost of Christmas Past; the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
Patrick Stewart narrates my favorite audiobook of A Christmas Carol.
Hershel & the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. unpgd. Holiday House, January, 1989. 9780823407699.
#tbt features Hershel & the Hanukkah Goblins, written by Eric Kimmel and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. This original story feels like a traditional folktale. Hershel of Ostropol hopes to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah in the next village. When he arrives, he learns that the villagers are haunted by goblins and are not allowed to celebrate Hanukkah. Hershel asks how to break the goblins' spell and learns he must spend eight nights in the old synagogue, light a candle each night and on the eighth night, the King of the Goblins must light the candles himself. It was published in January of 1989 and won a Caldecott Honor.
This book became an instant favorite with my boys and we broke it out to read frequently. When I became a school librarian, my first job was in a K-8 school where I saw all the students once a week as a "special." I read Hershel each year and no student ever minded one bit.
