Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Dragon Approved!

Time for another International edition of "A Christmas Carol" with a wacky cover, this one published by Hachette of Australia:

More info at their website.

You would think "A Christmas Carol" wouldn't need it, but cool to get a recommendation from Cressida Cowell, author of the popular "How to Train Your Dragon" series of books!

Let Topo Read!

Now that I think about it, I want Topo Gigio reading "Il Canto di Natale" to me!

Sorry, Julius LaRosa and Lou Monte!

Japanese!

This Japanese edition published in 1999 by Shinchosha has an interesting cover:

That 's a mischievous Ghost of Christmas Past leading Scrooge. I guess the toys represent Scrooge's childhood?

I'm sure some foreign language editions use illustration from other editions, but I haven't seen this cover art elsewhere.

More Italian!

This Italian edition also has an interesting cover:

Oh, and I think I'd go with Julius LaRosa. Less shtick!

More Spanish!

A lot of editions translated into other languages have fun covers, such as this one:

I think that's pretty cool! Good job, Sergio Mora!

Interestingly, the website where you can buy this book indicates that it contains the original* illustrations by John Leech, which you'd never suspect based on the cover art!

*When I first tried to type the word "original," I was so far off that the spell checker thought I meant "doornail" as in "dead as..." Fun!

International!

Keeping it random, here's an Indonesian edition of "A Christmas Carol":

I'm always a fan of old school ghost representations!

Here's what I get for a translation of the tagline at the bottom of the cover:

 "nothing for regret can make up for one chance of a wasted life"

I get it!

Actual Italian!

So, who do we trust to translate this for us?

Do we go with Julius LaRosa or Lou Monte?