Record Added: 4/23/2015 Setting  United States Topic Holidays: Christmas Publisher Random House Publishers I ISBN 0767916220 Year 2003 Age 9-12 Pages 144 Description Red and blue printed DJ
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The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family's typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street.
This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker's shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father's pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie's duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie's unstoppable campaign to get Santa - or anyone else - to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, "You?ll shoot your eye out, kid."
This book features 5 separate short stories, involving young Ralphie Parker, and his crazy family, which have been taken from Jean Shepherd's best-sellers.
The 5 stories, Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid, the Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message, or the Asp strikes again, My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award that Heralded the Birth of Pop Art, Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil, and the Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds, are all some of fans favorite scenes from the movie, which include how Ralphie discovers that his Little Orphan Annie decoder ring is really an advertisement for Ovaltine, how he defends himself against the bullies, Scut Farkas and Grover Dill, and the infamous leg lamp that his father (the Old Man) wins in a contest, just to name a few. |
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A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film
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