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Mary, that sounds like an amazing tradition! Are you still doing this and enjoying doing so?
Christina Stind wrote: "Mary, that sounds like an amazing tradition! Are you still doing this and enjoying doing so?"
Hi Christina: We are still doing this - I don't know how many years it has been, at least 7. I can do about half a stave per sitting. The family clamors for it every year and we still prefer the Muppets' version the most. It's amazing how much of Dickens' idiom the Muppets preserve...and then there's Piggy! She has an idiom all her own.
Mary
Hi Mary. Oh, miss Piggy definitely is in a league of her own as well!
I haven't really seen any versions of it yet - and this was my first year of reading it but I'm thinking about starting this tradition as well.
I do this too! This book is perfect to be read aloud...my boyfriend does the perfect scrooge voice! My mother liked our tradtion so much she does this now too!
mary what a great tradition. Im glad Im not the only one. I also like how you discuss the book among your family.
Great tradition! And the Muppets version has been our family favorite since it was released.
We started reading aloud this year on December 1 and in some places the family can recite along with me from the years of reading "A Christmas Carol" together. Then we had to take a hiatus because oldest child returned to college. We will resume at the end of the week after his finals are done - can't wait!
This year, our youngest, now a high school senior, adapted A Christmas Carol for the stage and directed it for her school. Her love of the story and Dickens' writing has only grown over the last decade plus of our read-aloud tradition. It's wonderful to see how this tale and tradition has inspired our family and others. God bless us, everyone!
Mary, I loved reading your tradition so much, I think we're going to incorporate it into our new little family and encourage it as everyone grows an it expands! It would be something perfect to do and encourage from a young age.
Have you seen the 'All dogs go to heaven' version? I always enjoyed that one as a child :)
what a wonderful tradition. I just got an illustrated/abridged version of this for my niece's young family. I will give them the original next year and tell them of your tradition . . . also your muppets movie rec.
We've had a programme in the UK this year called Christmas Victorian Bakers and covering "Twelfth Cake" - and there it is in the pages of A Christmas Carol. No Christmas Cake then - the celebrations went on till 12th Night and then these huge, highly decorated cakes appeared in bakers windows for the party held that night. The Industrial Revolution curtailed the long celebrations which had existed for centuries and worked around the agricultural year - not much ploughing etc in the cold, short winter days. So Dickens in 1848 was describing a tradition that was already dying out, as indicated by Bob Crachit being expected back in work by Boxing Day.
This year was bittersweet. We were scattered to the four winds right up to Christmas Eve with no time for the traditional unabridged read-aloud. The sweet part was my son reading the Fifth Stave "The End of It" aloud to all of us on Christmas morning.
Again this year we were together only a short time for Christmas. We watched The Muppets’ Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve and read aloud the Fifth Stave “The End of It” on Christmas morning. New traditions are born...
Mary wrote: "Again this year we were together only a short time for Christmas. We watched The Muppets’ Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve and read aloud the Fifth Stave “The End of It” on Christmas morning. New t..."
Reading Dickens in the time of covid : Are you reading A Christmas Carol this year also ?
This year we were spread across time zones and isolated by COVID. But we succeeded in reading the whole thing out loud over about 6 group FaceTime calls culminating on Christmas Eve. It was wonderful that our now-adult children made time wherever they were because they love it so much. We all watched the movie too but not together!
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Christina Stind wrote: "Mary, that sounds like an amazing tradition! Are you still doing this and enjoying doing so?"Hi Christina: We are still doing this - I don't know how many years it has been, at least 7. I can do about half a stave per sitting. The family clamors for it every year and we still prefer the Muppets' version the most. It's amazing how much of Dickens' idiom the Muppets preserve...and then there's Piggy! She has an idiom all her own.
Mary
Hi Mary. Oh, miss Piggy definitely is in a league of her own as well!I haven't really seen any versions of it yet - and this was my first year of reading it but I'm thinking about starting this tradition as well.
I do this too! This book is perfect to be read aloud...my boyfriend does the perfect scrooge voice! My mother liked our tradtion so much she does this now too!
mary what a great tradition. Im glad Im not the only one. I also like how you discuss the book among your family.
Great tradition! And the Muppets version has been our family favorite since it was released.
We started reading aloud this year on December 1 and in some places the family can recite along with me from the years of reading "A Christmas Carol" together. Then we had to take a hiatus because oldest child returned to college. We will resume at the end of the week after his finals are done - can't wait!
This year, our youngest, now a high school senior, adapted A Christmas Carol for the stage and directed it for her school. Her love of the story and Dickens' writing has only grown over the last decade plus of our read-aloud tradition. It's wonderful to see how this tale and tradition has inspired our family and others. God bless us, everyone!
Mary, I loved reading your tradition so much, I think we're going to incorporate it into our new little family and encourage it as everyone grows an it expands! It would be something perfect to do and encourage from a young age. Have you seen the 'All dogs go to heaven' version? I always enjoyed that one as a child :)
what a wonderful tradition. I just got an illustrated/abridged version of this for my niece's young family. I will give them the original next year and tell them of your tradition . . . also your muppets movie rec.
We've had a programme in the UK this year called Christmas Victorian Bakers and covering "Twelfth Cake" - and there it is in the pages of A Christmas Carol. No Christmas Cake then - the celebrations went on till 12th Night and then these huge, highly decorated cakes appeared in bakers windows for the party held that night. The Industrial Revolution curtailed the long celebrations which had existed for centuries and worked around the agricultural year - not much ploughing etc in the cold, short winter days. So Dickens in 1848 was describing a tradition that was already dying out, as indicated by Bob Crachit being expected back in work by Boxing Day.
This year was bittersweet. We were scattered to the four winds right up to Christmas Eve with no time for the traditional unabridged read-aloud. The sweet part was my son reading the Fifth Stave "The End of It" aloud to all of us on Christmas morning.
Again this year we were together only a short time for Christmas. We watched The Muppets’ Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve and read aloud the Fifth Stave “The End of It” on Christmas morning. New traditions are born...
Mary wrote: "Again this year we were together only a short time for Christmas. We watched The Muppets’ Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve and read aloud the Fifth Stave “The End of It” on Christmas morning. New t..." Reading Dickens in the time of covid : Are you reading A Christmas Carol this year also ?
This year we were spread across time zones and isolated by COVID. But we succeeded in reading the whole thing out loud over about 6 group FaceTime calls culminating on Christmas Eve. It was wonderful that our now-adult children made time wherever they were because they love it so much. We all watched the movie too but not together!
