Christmas Carol, AThis perennial Dickensian favorite about a miser's startling change of heart is illustrated by Italian artist Roberto Innocenti and reissued for the readers of all the Christmases Yet To Come. Ages 10 and up Fiction, 152 pages, 2016 ISBN 978 1 56846 278 3

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white-faced portrait on the jacket contrasts with the even starker cover

and elephant riding

epitomizes his otherworldly appearance

surrounded by bare-limbed trees and barbed wire

As plentiful images and graphical representations stimulate visual perception

ISBN 978-1-60818-987-8

and when combined with the adorable

beginning with "At first the infant

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