Scrooge's Night Before Christmas

In clever rhyme, this fully illustrated mash-up of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Moore’s The Night Before Christmas typifies the subtle wittiness of British humor. The poem begins, “’Twas the day before Christmas and Marley was dead—As dead as a door nail, so the old simile read.” Once we know the backstory of Scrooge’s nasty temper, we meet in succession the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, an...