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I was surprised to get the new DS game for Disney's A Christmas Carol and see that it "includes [the] original Charles Dickens book!" Sure enough, there's the literary classic in all of its public-domain glory, turning the Nintendo DS into a little e-reader. Disney is targeting 6- to 11-year-old kids with the game. Now, I love Dickens as much as the next game reviewer, but I wonder how many kids are going to get into that feature? Forget that the 28,000-word, 19th-century book grades out at around a 11- to 12-year-old reading level, largely thanks to one-syllable words; the original text is simply too old-fashioned. I can't imagine my 7-year-old nephew, who's a great reader, stopping the game to read a passage like the one Disney includes in its press photos (pictured): 

He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger despatched to him through Jacob Marley’s intervention. But finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this new spectre would draw back, he put them every one aside with his own hands; and lying down again, established a sharp look-out all round the bed.

Eh. Maybe I'm just being a Scrooge. Besides, surely young gamers would much rather "cook recipes from the Victorian era" -- another of the game's features.