THE BEST CHRISTMAS STORIES YOU NEVER HEARD

by Charles Dickens, Rupert Hughes, Frank S. Child, Alice Duer Miller, Frances Margaret Fox, Abbie Farwell Brown, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Johnny Heller | Read by Andrea Emmes, André Santana, April Richwine, Emily Ellet, Eunice Wong, Jennifer Jill Araya, Johnny Heller, Lillian Rachel

Children Ages 10+ • 14 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2023

These timeless Christmas stories are told with the wide emotional range they deserve. In "Mr. Pickwick," André Santana exuberantly brings the titular character to life as he celebrates a wedding, Christmas, and crotchety Gabriel Grubb's creepy kidnapping on Christmas Eve. In the bittersweet "Birds' Christmas Carol, " Jennifer Jill Araya magically presents young, terminally ill Carol, whose family grants her wish to invite a poor neighborhood family to join them for her last Christmas. Johnny Heller's "Show and Tell" delivers a hilarious politically incorrect romp through high school with future delinquent Razz Tasker showing why Santa is his hero. Santa, after some fat shaming from an irreverent Razz, movingly explains why he'll never die. Listeners will enjoy these exceptionally rendered stories for the holidays. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2023]

Digital Download • A Rich Voice • 2023

DD ISBN $24.95