title: Christmas Is Here
author: Adapted From The King James Bible
description: PreS-Gr 3The only text in this book is a few sentences from the King James Bible, and many of the ink and watercolor illustrations, in soothing tones of brown and gray with bold outlines, are wordless. They show a modern familymom, dad, babe in arms, and dog-walking childout for a stroll on a snowy evening, when they come across a small, outdoor Christmas pageant. As the child peers into the manger, readers are taken back in time to Bethlehem, with illustrations of sheep grazing over a dry Middle Eastern landscape as the shepherds learn of the birth of Jesus. As light from the star streams down over the holy family and shepherds leaning over the manger, the scene switches with a turn of the page back to the modern family singing carols in the snow in front of the manger. The themethat the most basic meaning of Christmas has remained the same over the centuriesis conveyed with a warm and captivating simplicity that even the youngest child will understand.<i>Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library</i><br /> Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
zlib_text: The Beautiful Word for Christmas
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  The Scripture on pages 4-49 is from Luke 1:26-38 and 2:1-21.
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