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A Charles Dickens Christmas
by Charles DickensA compendium of four of Charles Dickens's Christmas stories, A Charles Dickens Christmas includes The Chimes (1844), The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846) and The Haunted Man (1848).
Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker
by Francesca Simon'Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker' contains four funny stories that will invoke every family's worst Christmas nightmares, as Horrid Henry sabotages the school play, tries to do his Christmas shopping, ambushes Father Christmas, and endures Christmas dinner with the guests from hell.
A Christmas Carol (Wordsworth Classics)
by Charles DickensEbenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
Rollercoasters
by Charles DickensRollercoasters now covers GCSE set texts! This edition of A Christmas Carol has the same pick-up-able quality as our popular Key Stage 3 novels.
Letters from Father Christmas (PDF)
by J. R. R. TolkienThe first ever B-format edition of Tolkien's complete Father Christmas letters, including a new introduction and rare archive materials.
Holly and Ivan's Christmas Adventure
by Oliver LansleyA brand new Christmas story for children, Holly and Ivan’s Christmas Adventure is a magical tale of two brave little toys who fall off the back of Santa’s Sleigh on Christmas Eve. Not wanting their new owners to wake up to no presents, they set off on an epic journey to find them.Presented here as both a story book and a play, Holly and Ivan’s Christmas Adventure is packed with charming illustrations.
Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker (PDF)
by Francesca Simon'Horrid Henry's Christmas Cracker' contains four funny stories that will invoke every family's worst Christmas nightmares, as Horrid Henry sabotages the school play, tries to do his Christmas shopping, ambushes Father Christmas, and endures Christmas dinner with the guests from hell.
A Christmas Carol (Real Reads) (PDF)
by Charles Dickens and Karen Donnelly and Gill TavnerMiserable old miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas. Can somebody so selfish, so harsh and so horribly lonely ever change his ways? In one terrifying night, poor Scrooge is haunted by four ghosts. Why do they show him visions of his past? Why do they show him other people enjoying Christmas? Why do they show him the deaths of a young boy and of a miserable old miser? Weep and laugh as you read this much-loved Christmas story. Will Scrooge always think that Christmas is Humbug, or will he learn to shout Merry Christmas, one and all? Real Reads are a new and exciting way of presenting our literary heritage to a new audience: bright young primary readers, children who have seen the films and now want the books, teenagers who want to read the classics but aren't yet ready for the original, grown-up readers who want a quick fix of their favourite classical author, less confident readers who don't want to be left out of real books, learners of English who want to explore the classics everyone talks about.
Bookworms, Stage 3
by Charles Dickens and Clare WestThe Oxford Bookworms Library offers enjoyable reading at seven levels (Starter to Stage 6). To find your required reading level please take the Oxford Bookworks reading level test. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a cross, miserable, mean old man. When his nephew visits him on Christmas Eve to wish him a merry Christmas, Scrooge is not at all pleased. Bah! Humbug! he says. Christmas is humbug! Everyone who goes around saying 'Merry Christmas' should have his tongue cut out. Yes, he should! Oh yes, Scrooge is a hard, mean man. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, gets only fifteen shillings a week, and has to work in a cold little office, with a fire too small to warm even his toes. But that Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his long-dead partner, Jacob Marley. And after him come three more ghostly visitors ... It is a long night, and a frightening night, and when Christmas Day finally arrives, Scrooge is a very different man indeed.
The Play Of A Christmas Carol (PDF)
by David Holman and Heinemann StaffThe Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This is an adaptation of Dickens's popular Christmas story for reading aloud and performing.
A Christmas Carol (Collins Classics) (PDF)
by Charles DickensA celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views Christmas as 'humbug'. It is only through a series of eerie, life-changing visits from the ghost of his deceased business partner Marley and the spirits of Christmas past, present and future that he begins to see the error of his ways. With heart-rending characters, rich imagery and evocative language, the message of A Christmas Carol remains as significant today as when it was first published.
A Christmas Carol (Wordsworth Classics) (PDF)
by Charles DickensEbenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.
A Christmas Carol (Scholastic Classics) (PDF)
by Charles DickensEbenezer Scrooge is a miserly and mean-spirited old man. He treats family, coworkers, and strangers alike with distaste. But on Christmas Eve he receives a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley warns Scrooge that unless he learns to be less greedy and self-serving that Scrooge will be condemned to wander Earth weighed down with heavy chains, as Marley has been. Marley tells Scrooge that three spirits will visit him. First, the Ghost of Christmas Past visits and shows Scrooge his own Christmases past, including the Christmas when his fianc left him for being obsessed with money. Second, the Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge all the happiness occurring at the various Christmas festivities around the city. Finally, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge what will happen after his own death, and Scrooge is horrified to find that everyone will celebrate it. Distraught, Scrooge begs for another chance, and suddenly wakes in his own bed. Forever after he honours the spirit of Christmas with kindness, generosity and warmth.
New Oxford Playscripts
by Charles Dickens and Richard Kidd and Conor McreynoldsAn engaging classroom playscript. Ebenezer Scrooge is a grumbling, cold-hearted, shrivelled old miser who deplores the warmth and merriment of Christmas. One freezing, candlelit Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the chain-bound ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who seeks to warn him of the error of his ways. Over the course of the night, a series of spirits arrive, but can they teach Scrooge the true meaning of Christmas before it's too late?
For the Time Being
by W. H. Auden and Alan JacobsFor the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he considered himself married, rethought his entire poetic and intellectual equipment, and reclaimed the Christian faith of his childhood. Then, in short order, his relationship fell apart and his mother, to whom he was very close, died. In the midst of this period of personal crisis and intellectual remaking, he decided to write a poem about Christmas and to have it set to music by his friend Benjamin Britten. Applying for a Guggenheim grant, Auden explained that he understood the difficulty of writing something vivid and distinctive about that most clichéd of subjects, but welcomed the challenge. In the end, the poem proved too long and complex to be set by Britten, but in it we have a remarkably ambitious and poetically rich attempt to see Christmas in double focus: as a moment in the history of the Roman Empire and of Judaism, and as an ever-new and always contemporary event for the believer. For the Time Being is Auden's only explicitly religious long poem, a technical tour de force, and a revelatory window into the poet's personal and intellectual development. This edition provides the most accurate text of the poem, a detailed introduction by Alan Jacobs that explains its themes and sets the poem in its proper contexts, and thorough annotations of its references and allusions.
Christmas tree with decorations (Large Print)
by Rnib BookshareThis is an image of a Christmas tree standing in a pot. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. It is decorated with a star, gold coloured tinsel and multi-coloured baubles. At the top centre of the page is a five-pointed star and down the page is the Christmas tree with its typical zigzag outline. The tree is decorated with round blue, red and yellow baubles hanging from its branches and has sparkling gold tinsel draped across it. Near the bottom of the page is the tree's trunk standing in a red ceramic pot.
Christmas tree with decorations (UEB Uncontracted)
by Rnib BookshareThis is an image of a Christmas tree standing in a pot. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. It is decorated with a star, gold coloured tinsel and multi-coloured baubles. At the top centre of the page is a five-pointed star and down the page is the Christmas tree with its typical zigzag outline. The tree is decorated with round blue, red and yellow baubles hanging from its branches and has sparkling gold tinsel draped across it. Near the bottom of the page is the tree's trunk standing in a red ceramic pot.
Christmas tree with decorations UEB Contracted)
by Rnib BookshareThis is an image of a Christmas tree standing in a pot. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. It is decorated with a star, gold coloured tinsel and multi-coloured baubles. At the top centre of the page is a five-pointed star and down the page is the Christmas tree with its typical zigzag outline. The tree is decorated with round blue, red and yellow baubles hanging from its branches and has sparkling gold tinsel draped across it. Near the bottom of the page is the tree's trunk standing in a red ceramic pot.
A Christmas Carol (Oxford Literature Companions) (PDF)
by Charles Dickens and Peter Buckroyd and Carmel WaldronEasy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular GCSE set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characters, themes, language and contexts, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work with the text. Each book also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, whichprovides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
The Play of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (PDF)
by David HolmanThe Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This is an adaptation of Dickens's popular Christmas story for reading aloud and performing.
Usborne Young Reading, Series 2
by Lesley Sims and Charlies DickensThis simple retelling of the classic Dickens Christmas story has been adapted for children starting to read independently and remains faithful to the original text. With illustrations by Alan Marks, children will shudder at Marley's ghost and sympathize with Tiny Tim's plight.
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens and Neil Bartlett‘Oh, but he was a squeezing, wrenching, scraping, grasping kind of a Scrooge; a clutching, covetous old sinner...’Using only Charles Dickens' extraordinary words and a chameleon ensemble of eight actors, Neil Bartlett's A Christmas Carol is a bold theatrical reimagining of a classic Christmas story. This stage version was adapted for the festive season of 2002-3, and played to full houses and critical acclaim at both the Lyric Hammersmith, London, and the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow.‘Gets right to the frozen heart of Dickens' classic Christmas tale...one of those rare festive offerings for which no adult will need the excuse of a child in tow...’ - Guardian
GCSE English Text Guide
by Cgp Books"This CGP Text Guide contains everything you need to write top-grade essays about ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. It’s suitable for all GCSE English exams, including the new ones starting in summer 2017. Inside, you’ll find clear, thorough notes on the novel’s context, plot, characters, themes and the writer’s techniques - with quick questions, in-depth questions and exam-style questions included at the end of every section. There’s also detailed exam advice to help you improve your grades, plus a cartoon-strip summary to remind you of all the important plot points!
A Christmas Carol
by Ms Lucy EnglishA fully revised exam section: expert guidance on understanding the question, planning an answer, writing about effects and using quotations, plus tips on spelling, punctuation and grammar. All the key skills covered: ‘Exam focus’ model answer extracts with annotations, and ‘Progress and Revision Checks’ will guide students’ learning, help them test their progress and reach their potential. The most in-depth analysis: from text summaries to characters, themes, contexts, form, structure and language, all designed to help students reach their potential.
Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 3
by Charles Dickens and Clare WestEbeneezer Scrooge is a cross, miserable, mean old man. . His clerk, Bob Cratchit, gets only fifteen shillings a week, and has to work in a cold little office, with a fire too small to warm even his toes.But that Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his long-dead partner, Jacob Marley. And after him come three more ghostly visitors ... It is a long night, and a frightening night, and when Christmas Day finally arrives, Scrooge is a very different man indeed.