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    Bah! Humbug!: A Magical Retelling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
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    Bah! Humbug!: A Magical Retelling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
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    Bah! Humbug!: A Magical Retelling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

    Written by Michael Rosen

    Narrated by Pete Cross

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    This Christmas, join Michael Rosen and Tony Ross for their unforgettable retelling of Charles Dickens's beloved holiday classic.

    Harry Gruber plays the role of Scrooge in his school's production of A Christmas Carol, and he is extra nervous about tonight's performance because his father is in the audience—not away for business, as usual. Will the story's message of Christmas cheer and the redemptive power of love reach his father's distracted Scrooge heart?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateSep 11, 2018
    ISBN9781974923946
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    Bah! Humbug!: A Magical Retelling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
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    Michael Rosen

    Michael Rosen is one of the best-loved figures in the children's book world, renowned for his work as a poet, performer, broadcaster and educational campaigner. His bestselling books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen's Sad Book and Quick Let's Get Out of Here. His books for adults include Good Ideas, how to be your child's and your own best teacher and his memoir, So They Call You Pisher!. He was Children's Laureate from 2007-2009, and received the Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to children's literature in 1997. He is Professor of Children's Literature at Goldsmiths University of London. His book to help children (or anyone) write poems is What is Poetry?

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    • 4/5
      “Bah!Humbug!” Is a retelling of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” as a school play. What the reader gets is the Dickens’ version and a modern version. Harry Gruber is playing Scrooge and as he acts he thinks about how the play will be received by his workaholic father. Harry’s father left shortly after the play started to check on something at work. There he undergoes the questioning of an employee as to why he is there and not at the play. Events make him examine his life, his relationship with his wife, his son and daughter, much as Scrooge is forced to face-up to his actions. But does Harry see him in the audience when the curtain comes down?Rosen merges the past and present versions well, with Harry and his sister Eve carrying the weight of the transition well. Cudos go to the director of the school play and her ability to draw out the emotions of the student actors. Michael Rosen is a well known children’s author, he was the British Children’s Laureate from 2007 - 2009. One of his well known titles is “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.” The book has amusing illustrations by Tony Ross. He is best known for the Horrid Harry and Little Princess series. Both men live in Great Britain. Charles Dickens published “A Christmas Carol” in 1843 and it has inspired numerous movies, television programs and retellings in plays and fiction.I received this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    • 3/5
      This book isn't bad for a younger kid to read. As an adult it was a bit blahh. Harry gets the honor of playing Scrooge in his school's production of A Christmas Carol. His dad promises to see him in the play, but he is glued to his cell phone and things going on at work. This book almost a retelling of a Christmas story. You are reading the play as the kids put it on, and dad is walking in and out of play and his life imitating the story. It wasn’t a bad story but so much of it was the play that it didn’t really seem like a retelling, or of an add in. Kids will enjoy it, parents, maybe not unless read as a family project together.
    • 3/5
      Harry Gruber has been chosen to play Scrooge in the school play and with the help of his Mom and little sister Eva he has learned his lines and practices behaving like a nasty old man. Everyone is excited about the performance except for his father who sees it only as an interruption to his work, until he realizes that his work may not be as important as he thinks.Nice way to introduce young readers to the Christmas Carol themes with current time events.
    • 3/5
      It seems as if all the classics are getting a remake of one sort or another. Bah! Humbug! brought to mind a situation that I observed several years ago.I was having lunch at a local, old fashioned luncheonette. Sitting across from me was a man and his son who was about eight years old. The boy had just come from a soccer game and was really excited. He was trying to tell his father all about the game. The problem was that his father just couldn’t tear himself away from his cell phone, totally ignoring his son. In my head I said “you idiot, you will never have this important time back with your son and if you are very lucky the child may just forget that he took a back seat to a cell phone.This pretty much sums up Bah! Humbug! I loved the illustrations and the humor. I am not sure that a young reader might get all the nuances, but given my experience I am probably wrong about that. It was a very quick, enjoyable read.Thank you NetGalley and Candlewick Press for an ARC
    • 5/5
      Harry Gruber is going to play Scrooge in his school’s version of A Christmas Carol. His mom and his sister Eva can’t wait to see the show, but his workaholic dad is grumbling about missing time at work. Still, they all pile in the car in anticipation of a family night they all will share. Harry is nervous but works through it, and his mom and Eva are excited with Harry’s great performance. But the play is hardly underway when his dad gets a work text he chooses not to ignore. He dashes out, leaving a disappointed family in his wake. But things go awry, and the dad begins to think back over his own past. Though geared for kids, this book is one that can enjoyed by the whole family, maybe even performed by them! Author Michael Rosen has done an excellent job of pairing up the original tale with his modern day parable, and illustrator Tony Ross has done a remarkable job with the many delightful illustrations. This retelling of the well-known novel contains many of the lines readers have come to cherish from the original but certainly adds its own flavor to the mix. It’s Christmas magic the whole family can enjoy time and again.
    • 2/5
      For the intended audience, this story might be a nice introduction to the actual text of' A Christmas Carol as well as its meaning. Harry plays Scrooge in the school play while his work-focused father undergoes a quick, and not well-explained, transformation of his own. Two-star rating is given as an adult reader who already knows Dickens' story well and who found the contemporary plot boring. The use of Harry's wheelchair-bound, sassy sister Eva as a lens to see how a person with a handicap might view the well-known holiday story is the bright spot in this otherwise uninspired story.
    • 4/5
      Review based on an ARC (advanced readers copy received for free in exchange for an honest review).That this book contains the heart of one of my all-time favorite stories ever, certainly gives it a leg up. But I felt that Rosen did a really nice job, once he settled into the story a bit, of showing a modern-day Scrooge story... a story where you *understand* the scroogey'ness of the father, but cannot bear it for the pain it causes. By offering little snippets of perspectives from Father, friend, son, and daughter, I think Rosen really manages to make his modern Scrooge heartfelt. I loved the growth that Harry (son) shows in his role as Scrooge in his school play. It is almost as if we get to enjoy his maturity into "man," alongside his family. I loved his sister's little snarky comments. Somehow, despite the brevity with which we are graced with them, they provide us with a real glimpse into her personality and the joy she brings to others. And I was, despite my awareness of the story, still impressed with Rosen's approach at bringing Ray (father's) struggle into the light, for himself and for his son. I was touched and moved and once again find myself loving Dickens' Christmas Carol. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
    • 3/5
      Nicely done children's story comparing a modern day family's life with that told in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. The parallels were well done.
    • 3/5
      This is a cute retelling of A Christmas Carol. It tells of a young boy cast in the part of Scrooge in a Christmas Play, and his parallel-type circumstances with his father. An enjoyable read for the Christmas season and entertaining for young readers. Thank you, LibraryThing for my complimentary copy!