Like the Spirit of Christmas Past himself, Timber journeys from Victorian England to introduce young readers to the man who “invented” Christmas! Given as a gift to Charles Dickens during a book tour, this small, shaggy, ridiculous-looking dog becomes the great writer’s constant companion. And whether sitting at Dickens’s feet while the author acted out his stories before writing them down or entertaining Dickens’s vast litter of ten children before a blazing Yule log, Tiny Tim tells a tale as lively as a holiday jig! Featuring an embossed cover with gold foil trim plus 16 pages of Dickens-inspired crafts and recipes, this Dog Diaries Special Edition makes the perfect Christmas gift or stocking stuffer. With realistic black-and-white illustrations throughout plus a fact-filled appendix, this is the kind of historical fiction that reluctant middle grade readers simply can’t resist!