Interesting story but I need to read more Dickens before I really rate Dickens.

Very interesting book. The stories are childish (as it should be). The idea of the book and the children's imagination both being very interesting and limited to their experiences was very well done.

This is a sweet short story, made up of 4 shorter stories, told from the perspectives of four very young children. Each of their stories centre around love and capture a child-like sense of imagination, role-playing and adventure. This was a sweet and fun read.

The romances of 2 couples (aged 6 to 8 years old) - each child has their own short story of what their romance is like. Charming stories - I especially liked the one where children are in charge and grown ups (called children in that land) have to do as they are bid & can be sent off to boarding school!

This was an odd collection of stories - all written from the points of view of children of various ages. All the stories are very fanastical with the children imagining themselves in different grown-up situations such as married to one another, or as pirates terrorizing their grammar teacher, or as the "parents" of THEIR OWN parents who they call them their "children" - and they send them away to boarding school. It's all quite amusing once you get into the swing of what's going on - but it's not really holiday-ish or romantic so if you think you're picking this up to read about a Christmas romance, you're barking up the wrong pine tree.

Pretty unusual collection of four short romance stories, "written by four children" but actually written by Dickens, of course. They are easy to read and quite enjoyable, though I find the premise of the collection a bit weird. I enjoyed the third story of Captain Boldheart the most, probably because it was the most adventurous and featured not so much romance. :-)

So entirely charming and very funny. Master Dickens may have written these for the holidays, but they're a wonderful and very quick read any time of year.

I adored this compilation of four short stories.

I get what Dickens was doing here but I didn't really enjoy reading it.

Quite interesting, a story of four very young school children and their escapades, told from each of their perspectives. Odd, quirky little tale - four short stories, really.

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Super cute book written from the perspective of very imaginative children. Quite fun and still Dickens-esque.