Georgie's Christmas Carol

by Robert Bright

Book Overview

1975 1st printing Trumpet Club kids picture book as shown. Tight stapled spine, clear crisp pages, no writing, light edgewear, smokefree. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440843111
• ISBN13: 9780440843115
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: The Trumpet Club
• Length: 45 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I bought it for my mom's birthday :)

My mother is quite fond of memorabilia from her childhood, including the Georgie books. We have a couple, but I figured another wouldn't hurt. It came a little later than I had hoped, and it was a little newer than the ones she remembers reading, but she was pleased with it nonetheless. Also, the illustrations are so cute and fun to look at! :D

This book is wonderful

I used to love this book as a child, so now I'm getting it for my own children. Two little children move into the home of grouchy Mr. Gloams for the Christmas season. Mr. Gloams tells them there will be no Christmas, because he hates Christmas. But Mr. Gloams isn't the villain of this story - he's just a gloomy old man. The children write a letter to Santa Claus asking for a present for Mr. Gloams. Georgie and his friends find the letter, and work to make the children's letter come true. This is similar in many ways to Dickens' a Christmas Carol, except that there aren't any spirits (well, none that Mr. Gloams ever sees). Really, there is nothing supernatural in any of what Georgie does, except that Georgie happens to be a friendly ghost (He was a recurring character in several Robert Bright books, if you need to be told that) Mr. Gloams is transformed by the love of a couple of children, who saw a grouchy old man and instead of hating him or fearing him, they want to make him happy, and a few small friends who want to make some children's dream come true. Just a terrific story all around.