Stand up, Mr. Dickens: A Dickens anthology - Hardcover

Charles Dickens~Edward Blishen~Jill Bennett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858812178 ISBN 13: 9781858812175

Publisher: Orion Children's, 1995

Synopsis

Portrays the life of the famed English novelist and describes how he entertained audiences by reading his stories aloud. Includes excerpts from "The Pickwick Papers," "Oliver Twist," "A Christmas Carol," "Dombey and Son," "David Copperfield," and "Great Expectations."

About this title

About the Author:

Edward Blishen won the Carnegie Medal with Leon Garfield for the God Beneath the Sea (1970). For Kingfisher he has compiled several collections in the Treasury of Stories series and Children's Classics to Read Aloud.

From Booklist:

Gr. 7^-10. Dickens loved reading aloud from his novels, and his public readings were acclaimed by huge audiences. This large-size, illustrated anthology captures the drama of the performances. Blishen includes selections that are still great for acting and reading aloud; they will also make kids want to read more of Dickens. Long excerpts from Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol, Dombey & Son, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations are introduced with lively information about Dickens' life and work. For each selection, Blishen summarizes just what you need to know about "the story so far . . ." Of course, the famous scenes are here--Oliver Twist asks for more, Marley's Ghost terrifies Scrooge--but there are also some great passages that are less well known. Jill Bennett's watercolor-and-crayon full-page art and small pen-and-ink sketches on every page are done in a comic, theatrical style that connects the characters in the stories with the people in the audience, enthralled by "the greatest reader of the greatest writer of the age." Hazel Rochman

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Children's
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1858812178
• ISBN 13: 9781858812175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 87
• Illustrator: Jill Bennett