Christianity, Animals - General & Miscellaneous, Poetry - Animals, Poetry - General & Miscellaneous, Poetry - Religion & Beliefs
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Overview
When it snowed that night, the stork saw the beckoning star, the turtle hitchhiked to the manger with the Kings, the dove sang "coo-roo, " and the hog offered his curly tail to be pulled by the Baby Jesus as the animals gathered in the stable. This beautifully designed collection of nativity poems is also an enchanting ode to motherhood. Full color.A collection of nativity poems featuring animals who travel from afar to be at the manger of baby Jesus and protect him from the snow.
Editorials
Carolyn Phelan
Presented in picture-book format, these short poems are first-person expressions of visitors to the Nativity, representing the points of view of animals who followed the Christmas star, Mary, three queens who came late, and a mother who didn't follow the star but tended her own baby instead. Traditionalists will be surprised to find a sloth making its way to Bethlehem, but the sloth's poem is one of the more effective, beginning, "As everyone knows, / I begin to begin to travel / when the wind blows. 20/ From bough to bough to bough, / Single-handedly I move. / Easy if you know how." Mathers' illustrations, painted in a naive style and reproduced in full color, vary from mundane to effective to striking. Recommended for larger collections.Book Details
Published
October 1, 1993
Publisher
New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1993.
Pages
64
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780060217082