P.J. Lynch

P.J. Lynch is one of the most talented and revered illustrators working today. He has won many awards, including the Mother Goose Award, the Irish Bisto Award twice, and the Kate Greenaway Medal twice—in 1995 for The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey and again in 1997 for When Jessie Came Across the Sea. "I've been thinking of illustrating A Christmas Carol for many years," he says. "When I lived in Brighton, I used to walk daily past a gravestone belonging to a man called Ebenezer Robbins, who died on Christmas Day, 1842. In my mind, I felt sure that this man must have in some way inspired Dickens to create Ebenezer Scrooge in 1843. And I knew that one day I would illustrate this extraordinary story."

From the dust jacket of A Christmas Carol