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STOCKBRIDGE - Nearly a century after English author Charles Dickens penned A Christmas Carol, Norman Rockwell found inspiration in the literary classic.
For the Dec. 15, 1934 cover of The Saturday Evening Post, the famed American illustrator chose to portray the novel s characters Tiny Tim sitting atop Bob Cratchit s left shoulder.
At Cratchit s feet, Tiny Tim s famous line: God bless us everyone.
The Rockwell-Dickens connection seems a natural, according to Tom Daly, curator of education at the Norman Rockwell Museum. As a little boy, Rockwell s dad read Dickens stories to him, Daly said. Both [the artist and writer] give interesting details in their works that often tell a much larger story.