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Pirotta, Saviour

Joy to the World: Christmas Stories from Around the Globe

46 pp. | HarperCollins | October, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-06-027902-8 $$15.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Sheila Moxley. Folk-art-style illustrations in vivid gold, purple, and green tones add life to this collection of five mostly unfamiliar Christmas stories from Syria, Malta, Mexico, Ghana, and Russia. The tone of the writing is informal and at times distractingly contemporary: referring to soldiers who are chasing them, Mary says, "we gave them the slip." The author lists one or two sources--some of them oral--for each piece.
Reviewer: Anne St. John

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