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32 pp.
| HarperBlessings
| October, 2009
|
TradeISBN 978-0-06-077636-7$17.99
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
James Bernardin.
Twelve Nativity players offer prayers expressing their places in "God's plan." Though some of the rhymes are clunky ("I could not have known / when I turned them away, / pure love from above / would soon lie in the hay"), the writing is more often serviceable. Lavish paintings illustrate the traditional Nativity scenes using rich blue and gold hues.