Scrooge | 13" tall
 
"If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled in his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart!" - Ebeneze Scrooge

Joyce approached the Dickens line as a challenge and an opportunity. She remembers: We first introduced Scrooge in 1983, thinking that Bob, Mrs. Cratchit and Tiny Tim would join Scrooge in succeeding years as they each had a lesson to teach. My earliest characters had even more exaggerated faces then those of today, perhaps because I, like Dickens, look for the story behind each person.