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A Christmas Carol
Summary
Young Reading Series 2
A Christmas Carol
- The classic Dickens story retold for children growing in reading confidence.
- Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean-spirited old man who hates everything - even Christmas! But when three spirits visit him one Christmas Eve, Scrooge is taken on a journey into the past, present and future that will change him forever.
- Part of Young Reading Series 2 for readers growing in confidence.
- The audio CD includes a dramatic listen-along recording with music and sound effects, followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns.
“irresistible for children learning to read”
Child Education Plus
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Press & Blog Reviews
The Usborne Young Reading Program has a lovely selection of classic tales adapted for younger readers. Graded in seven levels, these have just enough stretch in them and yet are not too overwhelming.
The Irish Sunday Independent
Usborne's award winning range of children's books now includes a vibrant Reading Programme, featuring over 200 brilliant titles that supplement National Curriculum levels 1C to 4A. Bright full-cover illustrations combine with lively text to make these colourful hardback fact and fiction books irresistible for children learning to read, and will help capture their imagination and build confidence as they move from one level to the next.
Child Education Plus - top teaching resources to support the curriculum
Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme. Seven steps take beginners from simply written folk stories told in 150 words through to lovers of classic and original stories and histories, biographies and classics told in 5,000 words. Colour-coded for ease of use, and presented in a beautiful hardback, every story is well-written and attractively illustrated in full colour by leading artists.
Julia Eccleshare
Shows it is never too late to change your evil ways, and how seeing your past, present and future can change how you look at things.
The Guardian
Reader Reviews
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A Christmas Carol
I really liked A Christmas Carol because it was a sad story of a very mean man but had a great happy ending. Charles Dickens had lots of great ideas with the ghosts showing how nasty Ebenezer Scrooge was being to everyone and how he needed to be a better man.
Katie Moore, 18th December 2011
A Christmas Carol
I really enjoyed reading A Christmas Carol because Scrooge turned into a really nice person at the end and looked after Tiny Tim.
Jack Frings, 11th December 2011
A Fun Christmas Read!
A Christmas Carol is a really interesting story with three spirits and a very merry Christmas ending. This is a cool book to read because it makes you think about being kind to other people.
Carina Macdonald, 11th December 2011
Extras
- Usborne Quicklinks
See the Internet links for this book. - Retelling a classic story
Visit the See Inside Usborne blog to read how the writer, Mary Sebag-Montefiori, creates her retellings of classic stories. - Send an Usborne Christmas ecard
- Usborne Reading Programme
Find out more about the Usborne Reading Programme, download a chart of the seven levels and watch an interview with reading consultant Alison Kelly.
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