In the late 1950's Barks made 2 excursions into the realm of illustrating children's books. The first story, created in 1958, was a kind of adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel »A Christmas Carol in Prose« (1843); it was published in November 1960 under the title »Donald Duck and the Christmas Carol« in Little Golden Book D 84. Originally, it was supposed to receive the title »Uncle Scrooge and the Christmas Carol«, for which Barks obviously worked on a cover; in the end, however, the editors prefered to give Donald the starring role and ordered the cover from a different artist.