Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
1909
Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read
1909
Charles Dickens had a genius for understanding what children feel, their fears, their loyalties, their fierce small prides, and this collection gathers some of his most affecting tales crafted specifically for young readers. Here you'll find Tiny Tim, the frail boy whose gentle spirit haunts A Christmas Carol, and Little Nell, the luminous child-hero of The Old Curiosity Shop, alongside other memorable young figures who populate Dickens' Victorian world. The anthology opens with 'Trotty Veck,' the ticket porter and his daughter Meg, whose humble life amid poverty radiates warmth and love despite their circumstances. These stories don't shy away from the harder edges of 19th-century England, want, hardship, the fragility of family, but they approach these themes with a tenderness that has kept generations of readers turning pages. The moral lessons are there, woven naturally into narrative rather than imposed, and they linger long after the book is closed. Whether you're introducing Dickens to a young reader or revisiting these tales yourself, this collection proves that the best children's literature speaks to everyone.
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“There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.””
— Charles Dickens
“How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart.””
— Charles Dickens
“Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.””
— Charles Dickens
“She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.””
— Charles Dickens
“Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.””
— Charles Dickens
“He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him.~ Stephen speaking of Rachael””
— Charles Dickens
“It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else’s thorns in addition to his own.””
— Charles Dickens
“Depth answers only to depth .””
— Charles Dickens
“It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.””
— Charles Dickens
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