title: Bright Christmas: An Angel Remembers
author:  Andrew Clements 
description: A wise angel who has seen it all delivers an anecdotal account of the night that was "different from all the others?ever," the night that "the great truth came to the earth once and for all." In the voice of a seasoned spinner of yarns, Clements (Temple Cat) imagines a heavenly perspective on the birth of Jesus. The clever and colloquial text incorporates angel appearances from several Bible stories and hints at what it might feel like to be such a religious messenger. Kiesler's (Grandfather's Christmas Camp) soft oil paintings set the scene for biblical events with canvases of blue-black starlit nights and vast expanses of golden Middle Eastern desert. A few aerial perspectives bolster the premise of the text. Ages 4-8. <BR>Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **Alabaster's Song**
  
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   **Alabaster's Song**
  
  > Christmas through the Eyes of an Angel
  
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  MAX LUCADO
  
  >  _Illustrated by_ Michael Garland
  
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  Text copyright © 1996 Max Lucado.  
  Illustrations copyright © 1996 Michael Garland.
  
  All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form
  without written permission from the publisher, except for brief excerpts in
  reviews.
  
  Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Tommy Nelson®, a Division of Thomas
  Nelson, Inc.
  
   **Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data**
  
  Lucado, Max.
  
  Alabaster’s Song / Max Lucado ; illustrated by Michael Garland.
  
  p. cm.
  
  Summary: On Christmas Eve, a six-year-old boy listens to the angel from the
  top of the family tree sing just as he did on the first Christmas night.
  
  ISBN 0-8499-1307-1 (original hardcover)
  
  ISBN 1-4003-0146-7 (4½ x 5½)
  
  ISBN 1-4003-0007-X (box set)
  
  [1. Angels—Fiction.