Inspired by Charles Dickensâ?? own words, Mick and Brita bring this extraordinary genius to life, revealing Dickensâ?? childhood working in a London boot polish factory and charting his meteoric rise to fame as a young novelist. Follow him as he climbs a volcano, goes on tour to the US, presides at a family Christmas and gives a thrilling public reading. And discover the stories of ten of Dickensâ?? most famous novels, dramatised for younger readers with captions and graphic-novel comic-strips.