Title: The Cricket on the Hearth
First published: July 10, 2003
Description: One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books

John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.
Subjects: English Christmas stories, Short stories, Christmas stories, Social life and customs, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, English Short stories, Social conditions, England, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Children's fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Christmas, fiction, Fairy tales, Large type books, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, general, Contes de fées, Histoires de Noël
Places: England
People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Time periods: 19th century