Title: CHARLES DICKENS A Christmas Carol
Subtitle: with Connections
First published: September 1998
Description: **Christmas Plays written by Betty Smith and 9 other popular authors.**

Connections: Good King Wenceslas (carol) / traditional --
Christmas bells (poem) / by ***Henry Wadsworth Longfellow*** --
The scrooge test (humor) from You know you're a scrooge when ... / ***by Scott Matthews and Barbara Alpert*** --
A Christmas wish (novel extract) from A tree grows in Brooklyn / ***by Betty Smith*** --
The cobbler and the banker (fable) / ***by Jean de la Fontaine*** --
The unrepentant rich man (reader's theater) Luke 16:19-31 / ***adapted by Diane B. Enge***l --
Scrooge, ghosts, Tiny Tim and **Patrick Stewart** (theater review) / ***by Mel Gussow*** --
A one-man version of A Christmas carol (interview extract) / ***with Patrick Stewart*** --
Christmas was a time of plenty (personal memoir) / **by Nicholasa Mohr** --
Christmas Eve (poem) / ***by Cathy Song*** --
***Charles Dickens*** (biographical sketch).