The Christmas Books — Book Club Kit (Companion Classics) [Printable PDF]

The companion kit for a season of reading together: all five of Dickens's Christmas Books, one a week, from the last week of November to New Year's Eve.

Built entirely from The Christmas Books — Special Christmas Edition (Companion Classics), this printable kit (US Letter, 39 pages) contains:

· The Seasonal Reading Plan — the five books across the season in the order Dickens wrote them, saving A Christmas Carol for the days before Christmas and The Chimes, the New Year book, for New Year's Eve

· A Who's Who for every book — every character, in order of appearance, with the spoilers fenced off

· The Explainers in Digest — the Christmas book as a form; Dickens and social protest; goblins, fairies and ghosts across the five; Christmas and New Year

· All 124 discussion questions from the edition, arranged as five meetings (one per book) and fenced by part, so the group can stop exactly where its reading stopped

· "Spot the Plate" — eight of the first editions' illustrations printed without their captions (Leech, Maclise, Landseer, Stanfield), five details to find in each, and a full answer key at the back

For book clubs, families, classrooms and fireside reading circles. Print it, pass it round, and keep Christmas — and New Year — with all five books this year.

Companion Classics · Charles Dickens · Edited by Horace Harriott Jr.