A Christmas Carol (Stave 1). Hoffmann, who first fell in love with THE MUPPETS CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), has spent several Christmas seasons putting together one version of the Dickens tale or another.

A Christmas Carol is broken up into five different sections, or “staves”: Stave I introduces us to Scrooge and Marley’s ghost; Staves II, III and IV take Scrooge through time with the Ghosts ...

As charming as ‘A Christmas Carol’ can be, it is darkened again and again by Dickens’ flaring temper. ... with anyone who showed up taking a turn reading a stave.

Explore A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens with BBC Bitesize KS3 English Literature. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.