Abridged edition of 'A Christmas Carol'

[Myrrhcy]

Can anyone recommend one for dd, please - if one even exists(she's 7½ but has an older reading age)

Her year group will be doing an updated version for their Christmas concert and she said she had no idea it was originally a book, let alone having heard of Charles Dickens!

But she is fascinated by the story so I thought I'd try and get it for her.

We have this one at the junior school I work at - it's very nice & has a CD too

I'd get her the original and read it to her. And there are loads of film versions. It's a short book. But then I hate abridged books.

I tried reading it, the proper one, to ds (9.5) and dd (8) - it's really complex you know - has allusions to saint's legends (St. Dunstan, anyone?) that I (really fairly well-eddicated) have no idea about. I kept having to break off and say "what [I think] he means is ..."

In the end, ds snarfed it & took it to school (they're encouraged to have a book on the go for early mornings & rainy breaktimes) and read it in a day - presumably skipping everything that wasn't obvious. And said he loved it. But he's 9.5 rather than 7.5.

So: in this case I think abridged is OK.

Thank you.

I thought it would be too hard too, Bink (I still have to reallly concentrate when reading Dickens sometimes!)

I'll look out for that version, thanks Rusty

Quentin Blake has illustrated a new abdridged version.