Stine, R.L. Young Scrooge: a very scary Christmas story, 185
pages. Feiwel and Friends (Macmillan),
2016. $17. Content: PG
Rick Scroogeman hates Christmas
with a passion. That stupid movie means
he gets called “Scrooge” all month long.
And his birthday is on Christmas so his parents use it as an excuse to
only buy him one set of presents. On the
other hand, Scroogeman thinks he is the funniest kid at his school; he’s not a
bully, he thinks, he’s just having fun with his friends. Can the three ghosts cure this bully or is he
a hopeless case?
Stine uses such a heavy hand in this adaptation of the
classic story for a younger crowd that it becomes a unappealing farce. His references to other Dickens characters
are wasted on the target audience and very few adults besides reviewers are
ever going to read this, so why bother.
Rick is so slow to get to understanding the purpose of the Ghosts and
then the final paragraph ruins the whole idea of redemption anyway.
NOT RECOMMENDED.
Cindy, Library Teacher
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1 comment:
Yep. This had potential, and I was hoping it would be good, since 8th grade still does a Christmas Carol unit. Oh, well.
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