Review: A Wonderful Amish Christmas Carol
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2013
This Illustrated Amish Christmas Carol by Ruth Price is a unique Amish version of Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'. As with the original story it is about a man name Hezekiah Geizhals who is being literally haunted by has past life through encounters with ghosts who are four unique Second Christmas visitors. One of the visitors is a ghost named Marley like in the Dickens story.  Marley is a long departed business associate who warns him to change his ways.  Now an old man, Geizhals realizes he has spent an empty life where he devoted his life to accumulating wealth and allienating his relatives, and realizes that he faces a terrible afterlife like Marley.  The other ghosts represent Christmas past, present and future.Geizhals has a girl who works is stables named Hannah Yoder who in this story is like a cross between Bob Cratchet and Tiny Tim.  Later in the story Hannah is attempts to save one of Gerizals' horses from being slaughtered by taking him away.  I don't want to give away the story here but readers will not be disappointed by the ending and will even feel uplifted by it.  With wonderful illustration this is a great story to add to your Christmas collection.