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Scrooge's Night Before Christmas, Night Before Christmas Series

This charmingly illustrated verse tale offers a fresh and funny take on two Christmas classics—an ideal all-ages holiday gift!

In clever rhyme, this fully illustrated mash-up of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Clemet Clark Moore’s The Night Before Christmas combines clever humor and a heartwarming story. We meet the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, along with the nephew Fred, Cratchits and the Fezziwigs. And after his fantastical adventure, we know that Scrooge has reformed when hear him bellow Santa’s traditional refrain, “Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night.”

Scrooge’s Night Before Christmas is part of a series of illustrated verse books based on classic literary characters. All written by Julie Petersen and illustrated by Sheryl Dickert, the others include Sherlock’s Night Before Christmas and Mr. Darcy’s Night Before Christmas.

Julie Petersen

JULIE PETERSEN has fond memories of hiding under her covers at night with a flashlight just so she could finish whatever chapter she was on and a few more after that. When not reading Jane Austen, she can be found singing and spoiling her nieces and nephews. Julie currently lives in Clinton, Utah.Sheryl Dickert has illustrated other books in the Night Before Christmas series. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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