A Christmas Turkey

Name: A Christmas Turkey
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Louisa May Alcott
ISBN: 9781666588187

Author: Louisa May Alcott

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 09/26/2017

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Literary Fiction, Seasonal Fiction

Synopsis

In A Christmas Turkey, a poor family works hard to figure out how they can celebrate Christmas. When the father is unable to provide a turkey, the children venture out into the world, working to earn enough money to pool their resources and purchase one for the Christmas table.

About Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a prolific American author known for her novel, Little Women, and its sequels, Little Men and Jo's Boys. She received instruction from several famous authors, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and she is commonly considered to be the foremost female novelist of the Gilded Age.

About Susie Berneis

Susie Berneis is a versatile voiceover artist with numerous narration credits to her name. She has an ear for dialect and a love for the process of developing characters, which has been cultivated through her twenty-plus years of experience as a community and regional stage actress. Based in Ann Arbor (home of the University of Michigan, where she received her BA in English and theatre), she now takes great joy in playing all the characters she encounters in her narration.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shauna

A very short, yet wonderful tale to warm the heart.......more

Goodreads review by midnightfaerie

A poor family with a mom who sews for extra money and a father who drinks too much because it's getting increasingly harder to support his family. But then he overhears his children making plans to go out and get work to make some money so the family can at least have a Christmas turkey. All the mem......more

Goodreads review by Michell

A simple little book about a poor family without a turkey for Christmas. The three oldest children decide to put their heads together to raise the money for a turkey. Alcott writes wonderful short stories to put you in the Christmas mood.......more

Goodreads review by Tom

4.25⭐......more