"Donald Duck and the Christmas Carol (1960) - A Little Golden Book - "Stave 1"

Donald Duck and the Christmas Carol (1960)
A Little Golden Book
Scrooge: Scrooge McDuck

From about the same time period as the collector's plates we were looking at comes some more illustration, this time in the form of a Little Golden Book from 1960 titled "Donald Duck and the Christmas Carol."

Based on the title and the cover art, it may not be apparent that this is a takeoff on "A Christmas Carol" featuring the great Carl Barks character Uncle Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck), years before the album and cartoon versions of "Mickey's Christmas Carol."

I think it's  a lot of fun, with a simple yet effective story (by Annie North Bedford, adapted by Norman McGary - not sure what that means exactly and what about Dickens?) and extremely appealing artwork (credited as by the Walt Disney Studio).

There are 23 pages of story, which are mostly short sentences with big pictures, effect for young readers.

Since the "plot" actually follows the structure of the book fairly closely, I thought it would be fun to break it down into staves.

So, without further ado, here's Stave 1:

One thing I will point out is that Huey's name is spelled as "Hughie" here. Not sure when "Huey" became standardized, but the boys are wearing their established colors: Red (Huey), Blue (Dewey) and Green (Louie).

Stave 2 coming up!