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A Christmas Goodnight
On a quiet but wondrous Christmas Eve, the nativity story comes to life, and families everywhere celebrate the miracle of Christmas.
Nola Buck's simple poetic text and tender illustrations by Sarah Jane Wright make this gentle holiday goodnight book a joy to read and share with those you love!
Nola Buck's simple poetic text and tender illustrations by Sarah Jane Wright make this gentle holiday goodnight book a joy to read and share with those you love!
Hardcover, 24 pages
Published
September 27th 2011
by Katherine Tegen Books
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This cozy, quiet Christmas book focuses on the nativity. Through gently rhyming stanzas, the story of Jesus’ birth is told. It is woven into a bedtime story where everyone in the nativity tale is told goodnight. It includes the animals, the angels, the star, the Wise Men, and the shepherds. Then the book moves to a modern winter scene at a farm where the good night wishes continue to the snow, the hare, and a small nativity set. This transition is made seamlessly and very successfully, tying the...more
I purchased this book based entirely on my love of Sarah Jane's illustrations. I also like to buy holiday books without Santa...to focus on Christ in the Holiday season.
The illustrations ARE amazing. The story is dull and lifeless.
It isn't actually a story at all. It is a series of sentences all beginning with the same start. Unfortunately, the story also moves from the Nativity scene to present time without any clear indicators. My children 7 and 5 were confused and declared the book "boring"...more
The illustrations ARE amazing. The story is dull and lifeless.
It isn't actually a story at all. It is a series of sentences all beginning with the same start. Unfortunately, the story also moves from the Nativity scene to present time without any clear indicators. My children 7 and 5 were confused and declared the book "boring"...more
Illustrations and rhyming text portray characters from the Nativity story, from doves in the stable to the wise men, as they go to sleep on Christmas Eve.
This was a nice Christmas book to read. The rhyming texts are gentle and the illustrations are good.
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A Christian book based on saying goodnight to the nativity scene
Good bedtime reading for Christmas season.
A good book for very young children
Great soft pictures. Adorable.
We enjoyed the pictures.
Apr 11, 2013
Shivam Sethi
marked it as to-read
Dec 27, 2012
Katie
marked it as to-read
Dec 03, 2012
Colleen Stohlton
marked it as to-read
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