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One starry night, a cow watches over her calf, a nanny goat watches over her kid, and a pig watches over her piglet. For this one moment, every family in the animal kingdom is peaceful, just like Mary and Joseph watching over their own newborn nearby.
This simple yet profound book perfectly captures the universal nighttime vigil of parents everywhere while gently alluding to the presence of a nurturing creator who watches over all. Lauren Thompson is at her lyrical best, while Jonathan Bean's gorgeous, artisanal illustrations are the perfect match for this beautifully serene story of a truly Peaceable Kingdom.
Rezensionen (6)
School Library Journal-Rezension
PreS-Gr 4-Animal parents look after their offspring as they watch over Mary and Joseph caring for baby Jesus. The animals, rendered in pencil with soft digital coloring, are the wild creatures that would have lived in the Holy Land at the time of the Nativity-wild boars and oxen, jackals, and cheetahs-not their domestic counterparts. This tender, poetic retelling of the age-old story takes the form of a whispered prayer as it highlights the nurturing given to babies of many species. The art and the words strike just the right tone of reverence and delight. A lovely offering.-Virginia Walter, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly-Rezension
Under a starry slate-blue sky, mother animals watch their children in this outing from the team that created The Apple Pie That Papa Baked. Italicized text forms a separate rhyming stream of loving maternal commentary ("I am here/ always near") as the main text describes scenes of loving mother-child companionship, culminating with Joseph, Mary, and their newborn, with animal pairs gathered round. Per an author's note, the featured animals could all be found in the Holy Land at the time of Jesus' birth. Thompson focuses on the Nativity theme of love; Bean also keeps it simple with a limited palette of earth tones. The book is more universalist than Christian, which should allow it a broad readership. Ages 1-6. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book-Rezension
"One starry night / a sheep watched over her lamb / I am here." In Thompson's poetic, reverent text, two voices tell of the night Jesus was born. Eight animal parents watch over their young; then all gather under the stars with Mary and Joseph to welcome the baby Jesus: "and the world was filled with love / God's will be done / Amen." This peaceful ode to parental love is just right for bedtime reading. Bean's digitally colored pencil illustrations portray the calm nighttime scenes in black, beige, dark gray-blue, and a sprinkling of white. The gentle words are beautifully matched by the strikingly composed art; both are infused with meaning and are powerful in their simplicity. kitty flynn (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus-Rezension
This arresting story of the first Christmas has a succinct, powerful, rhyming text and striking illustrations unlike any other version of the Nativity story, with art and words perfectly matched in an artistic tour de force.At first glance, the story seems extremely short, even simplistic, and the illustrations washed out, lacking color or life. Look deeper. The gentle, soothing text is related in two voices, one describing mother-and-child pairs of animals, the second offering comforting words in the voice of the mother. The mother's words are a beautiful rhyming poem, the thoughts of a caring parent that can also be interpreted as the voice of God speaking to his children. The mother-and-child pairs move slowly through the dark night, illustrated in minimalist shapes in a desert-night palette of tan, gray, gray-blue and black. The animal pairs gather around Mary and Joseph and their newborn in a tableau of simple shapes against a huge tree, with the merest hint of a shelter and manger. Look deeper again. Both the muted illustrations using simple shapes and a flattened perspective and the simplified text from two viewpoints indicate the influence of cubism, a different way of looking at a complex subject. This unforgettable interpretation stands out as a bright, multifaceted star in the crowded constellation of Christmas Eve stories.(Picture book/religion. 4-8)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist-Rezension
In this peaceful ode to the Nativity, six parent-child animal pairs make their way toward the manger. As the creatures collectively join Mary, Joseph, and baby, the double-page spreads evoke a gentle spirituality and comforting familial moments in intimate close-ups of parents nurturing their young a cat licks her kitten, a donkey gently guides her foal up a hill that expand to a wide tableau reminiscent of Edward Hicks' painting The Peaceable Kingdom. Bean, an Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning artist, has digitally colored his spare, angular, stylized pencil art in a calming black, brown, and blue palette that echoes the story's hushed tone, while Thompson's words, which move with soothing repetition and a lulling rhythm, may replace Clement C. Moore's as part of the final lights-out on Christmas Eve: And the world was filled with love / God's will be done / Amen.--Medlar, Andrew Copyright 2010 Booklist
New York Review of Books-Rezension
This simple retelling of the Nativity opens fittingly with a moon-faced owl, whose hushed watchfulness sets the tone for the book, which doubles as a bedtime tale. Told largely through the gathering of the animals, as befits a Christmas story for very young readers, Thompson's rendition emphasizes mood and setting. Bean's atmospheric illustrations, in earthy tones of black, taupe and slate blue, give this quiet tale of maternal devotion a distinctive and appropriately lovely look. A CHRISTMAS GOODNIGHT By Nola Buck. Illustrated by Sarah Jane Wright. 24 pp. Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins. $12.99. (Picture book; ages 2 to 5) "Goodnight to the angel choir./Goodnight to the star above./Goodnight to the Holy Family./Goodnight to the ones we love," run the couplets of this pleasing bedtime book, which grounds the Nativity story in the young reader's own familial experience. (On a very good night.) A debut for Wright, the illustrator, "A Christmas Goodnight" features sweet-faced children and animals and an especially cozy-looking manger, which work well with Buck's graceful rhymes. THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER By Barbara Robinson. Illustrated by Laura Cornell. 40 pp. Harper/HarperCollins. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8) Their subject matter may be solemn, but Christmas pageants are opportune moments for comedy. This picture book adaptation of Robinson's popular 1972 novel of the same name features the Herdmans - "the worst kids in the history of the world" - and their takeover of the town's annual pageant. The frantic, comedic drawings by Cornell, who illustrates Jamie Lee Curtis's children's books, suit this tale of holiday misbehavior and unanticipated generosity, which she amplifies in scribbly, animated style. THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS From the King James Bible. Illustrated by Pamela Dalton. 32 pp. Handprint/Chronicle. $17.99. (Picture book; ages 4 to 8) Dalton's extraordinary illustrations for Katherine Paterson's retelling of "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" won rave reviews this past summer. Here, she uses the same intricate cut-paper artwork set against a dramatic black background, to great effect. Shimmering as in an illuminated text, the angel Gabriel, the Wise Men and the Virgin Mary reflect medieval iconography as well as the American folk art tradition. Children will enjoy contemplating the serene scenes to the cadence of the archaic language in the text. THE THIRD GIFT By Linda Sue Park. Illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. 32 pp. Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $16.99. (Picture book; ages 6 to 9) Park, a Newbery medalist, strikes a highly original note in this beautifully told and exquisitely illustrated story about a boy who learns from his father how to cultivate myrrh in the Arab desert. Myrrh, drops of which the father and son call tears, is drawn from tree sap, then used as medicine, flavoring, salve and funereal incense. "When you smell the tears at a funeral, you know that someone truly beloved has died," the boy explains. Today's collection is destined for three men in fine robes, who add it to their stock of gold and frankincense. "The gifts are for a baby," they tell him. PAMELA PAUL ONLINE A slide show of this week's illustrated books at nytimes.com/books.
