At Paper & Book Intensive at Penland, North Carolina, in 1995, I met Nell Meldahl, who taught me how to make Japanese Handscrolls. Nell was wonderful, and when she said, "Come visit," well... I took her up on her invitation. I was traveling a few months later, in the Fall of that year, back to Penland, but by way of New England, and I visited Nell and her family on Cape Cod along the way. Nell and her husband, it seemed to me, were doing things right in the way they were raising their two young boys. They taught their kids how to do things. There was no TV in the house. They ate a good meal together when the day was done. And at night, after dinner, everyone gathered around as Nell's husband read a book aloud. The boys were engaged, and I was, too.

The Read-With-Me Books from Bushel & Peck Books remind me of Nell and her family and that September night in 1995. The fact is that reading with your kids has a profound impact on their development. These Read-With-Me books make this easier than ever.

In A Christmas Carol: The Read-With-Me Edition, the unabridged text that follows Scrooge and the three Christmas ghosts is broken down into easy, 20-minute chunks—perfect for daily read-alouds. Thoughtful questions after each passage boost comprehension and facilitate meaningful discussion, while definitions in the margins illuminate difficult words and historical context.

Learn vocabulary, strengthen literacy, introduce classic stories... and bond together over beautiful literature with this book from the series, or any of the others we carry (we have six: Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows, and Treasure Island.