Just testing what a youtube playlist looks like, and works, once embedded. In prep for my Best of 2010 music list. (This playlist is one I'd already made awhile back... just random party music.)
Friday, December 24, 2010
A Christmas Carol for a Christmas Mabel
One of my favourite stories since childhood has been A Christmas Carol.
I grew up on the 80s cartoon version: (I don't see a youtube of the version I remember, but once found pics).
And this album my dad had, with Ronald Coleman as Scrooge on one side, and Charles Laughton reading from the Pickwick Christmas on the other side. I L.U.R.V.E.D. it!! When Bob Cratchit cried, I cried.
My dad and mum always watched the Alistair Sims version, so I also grew up on that and watch it annually:
And I own a copy of the story that I bought in grade 2 or 3 from Scholastic, as well as my dad's beautiful annotated Christmas Carol. And a mini version. Oh and Patrick Stewart's audio version.
When I was in London I tracked down where Scrooge's place of business would have been,
and the little cemetery where the final ghost showed him his grave.
Here's the book at the British Museum library:
I heartily recommend working this story into your annual celebration (if you celebrate. If not, well it's a nice story anyway.) Here lots of cartoon/kiddy versions...
I caught this one recently, it was very good. It explains a lot of stuff, to help kids understand the story.
The Muppet one is great:
And Connie Willis claims the Magoo version is the most accurate.
I grew up on the 80s cartoon version: (I don't see a youtube of the version I remember, but once found pics).
And this album my dad had, with Ronald Coleman as Scrooge on one side, and Charles Laughton reading from the Pickwick Christmas on the other side. I L.U.R.V.E.D. it!! When Bob Cratchit cried, I cried.
My dad and mum always watched the Alistair Sims version, so I also grew up on that and watch it annually:
And I own a copy of the story that I bought in grade 2 or 3 from Scholastic, as well as my dad's beautiful annotated Christmas Carol. And a mini version. Oh and Patrick Stewart's audio version.
When I was in London I tracked down where Scrooge's place of business would have been,
and the little cemetery where the final ghost showed him his grave.
Here's the book at the British Museum library:
I heartily recommend working this story into your annual celebration (if you celebrate. If not, well it's a nice story anyway.) Here lots of cartoon/kiddy versions...
I caught this one recently, it was very good. It explains a lot of stuff, to help kids understand the story.
The Muppet one is great:
And Connie Willis claims the Magoo version is the most accurate.
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