The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Greene, Rhonda Gowler

The Stable Where Jesus Was Born

32 pp. | Atheneum | October, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-5048-6 $9.99
Reissue (1999)

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Susan Gaber. The celebration of the birth of Jesus starts as a cumulative rhyme and then, halfway through, reverses direction until it ends with the beginning verses. The circular narrative may confuse some readers because the events do not occur in logical order. The acrylic art, however, captures the Nativity scene and the shepherds' wonder at the angel who appeared to them.

Reviewer: Anne St. John