Barbie in a Christmas Carol

 Shirley J.              Juvenile literature                               Barbie does a version of Dicken's carol

Barbie in a Christmas Carol by Mary Man-Kong    32 pages

A cute story, but, different from the dickens version.   In this version Barbie is Eden Starling, owner of a theater with a small company of actors and a costumer.   Barbie is scrooge like, hates Christmas, hates giving her actors and seamstress time off for Christmas.    She is visited by her evil aunt who taught her to hate Christmas and set the example to be mean to people even though the ghost of Christmas past shows Eden had been a loving child with a best friend Catherine who was still her friend trying to bring back her loving side.  Her Aunt's ghost comes back in the Jacob Morley role warning her to change her ways or end up bearing the awfulness that became her afterlife.   The ghost of Christmas present finds Eden's employees grousing and mutinying to go home for Christmas and of course the ghost of christmas future showing Eden broke because she alienated her actors and seamstress and her hatefulness finally turns her friend Catherine hateful and hating Christmas, too.   Barbie/Eden wakes up and doesn't want this to be her fate nor Catherine's either so like Scrooge she mends her ways gives her staff time off for the holidays gets in the giving spirit and does her best to make the world a better place.   A good story for young and old.