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14 pp.
| Candlewick |
September, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-8326-9$35.00
(3)
K-3
No stranger to holiday pop-up books (Chanukah Lights; The 12 Days of Christmas; etc.), Sabuda's treatment of the biblical first-Christmas story is rather modest, for him. Unadorned pastel-colored pages provide the backdrop for the pop-up scenes--all white, with gold and off-white accents--of the Nativity story. The paper engineering is, as always, impressive, and comparatively sturdy.