Who was born this special day?

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Personal Author:

Bunting, Eve, 1928-

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

[32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Summary:

Not the lamb or the goat or the mule or the dove was born on the first Christmas long ago, but a special child was.

Subject Term:

Children's poetry, American

Christian poetry, American -- Juvenile poetry.

Additional Credits:

Gore, Leonid

Reading Program:

ACCELERATED READER, INTEREST= GRADES K-4 BOOK LEVEL= 2.1 POINTS= 0.5 SD QUIZ 45264 ENGLISH FICTION.

Publication Information:

New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2000.

Subject:

Children's poetry, American

Christian poetry, American -- Juvenile poetry.

Jesus Christ -- Juvenile poetry.

Christ

Cristo

Jezus Chrystus

Jesus Cristo

Jesus, of Nazareth

Jezus

Christ, Jesus

Yeh-su

Masīḥ

Khristos

Gesù

Christo

Yeshua

Chrystus

Gesú Cristo

Ježíš

Isa, Nabi

Nabi Isa

Isa Al-Masih

Al-Masih, Isa

Masih, Isa Al-

Jesus, de Nazaré

Jesucristo

Yesu

Yeh-su Chi-tu

Iēsous

Iēsous Christos

Iēsous, ho Nazōraios

Kʻristos

Hisus Kʻristos

Christos

Jesuo

Yeshuʻa ben Yosef

Yeshua ben Yoseph

Iisus

Iisus Khristos

Jeschua ben Joseph

Ieso Kriʻste

Yesus

Kristus

ישו

ישו הנוצרי

ישו הנצרי

ישוע

ישוע בן יוסף

المسيح

مسيح

يسوع المسيح

耶稣

耶稣基督

예수그리스도

Jíizis

Yéshoua

Iėsu̇s

Khrist Iėsu̇s

عيسى

Ihu Karaiti

Ihu Karaiti te Ariki

American children's poetry

American Christian poetry

SAILS ISBN:

9780689823022

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Searching... Plainville Public Library	J BUNTING	PICTURE BOOKS	Searching... Unknown
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Searching... Easton - Ames Free Library	PIC BUNT	Stacks	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Fall River Main	J811.54 B942W	CHILDREN HOLIDAY	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Fiske Public Library	JJ B/CHRISTMAS SHELF	PICTURE BOOKS	Searching... Unknown
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Searching... New Bedford Francis J. Lawler Branch	J HOL PIC BUNTING	CHILDREN HOLIDAY	Searching... Unknown
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Searching... Pembroke Public Library	JE BUNTING, E.	PICTURE BOOKS	Searching... Unknown
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Searching... Taunton Public Library	E HOLIDAY BUNTING	CHILDRENS ROOM	Searching... Unknown

Who was born this special day? Was it you, little lamb? "I was born back in early May when the breezes of spring chased winter away." On this magical starlit night, each manger animal in turn is asked the question before the revelation that it was the child -- the Christ child -- that was born. With soft, luminous illustrations by the incomparable Leonid Gore, Eve Bunting gently evokes the true meaning of Christmas with a simple purity that will strike a chord in even the youngest reader. The lovely paintings and comforting, poetic mood of the text make this a perfect book to share on Christmas Eve.

Reviews (3)

Horn Book Review

Soft, misty artwork creates a quiet, contemplative mood for this Nativity book. The text asks one baby animal after another--as well as a cedar tree and a stone--whether it was born on this day, and each answer is no. At the end of the book, all of the animals gather around a manger, which holds the newborn child. This tranquil Christmas story is a good read for snowy winter days. From HORN BOOK Spring 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Review

In time for the Christmas season, a brief picture-book poem from Bunting, for very young Christian listeners who will enjoy guessing: Who was born on this special day? The narrator questions the lamb, then the goat, calf, donkey, dove, cedar tree, and stoneand each provides an answer according to its nature. For example, lamb says: I was born back in early May / when the breezes of spring chased winter away. It was not the lamb. And the cedar tree, when asked: Is it your birthday, cedar tree? Responds: No, not mine. / When I was a seedling floating in space, a wandering wind dropped me here in this place. It was not the tree. The rhyming couplets appear in white italics, superimposed on soft and fuzzy, blue-and-white acrylic paintings that show cuddly, curly-coated, big-eyed animals, twinkling stars, and fuzzy angels gliding through the night, culminating with the child Jesus in the manger. Pictures are best viewed from a distance. Sweet, but not essential. (Picture book/poetry. 3-6)

Booklist Review

Ages 2^-6. The narrator of this Christmas poem, which is set in an ethereal, evening barnyard, asks a series of animals the answer to the title question: "Was it you?" Each animal answers in a brief poetic line about its own birth: "No, not I," says the goat. "I was born on a soft, warm night under the white of the moon's pale light." The speaker asks a tree and a stone until finally the answer comes: "The child who lies in the manger bed, / the shine of the star high overhead." Young readers might feel the animal images in Gore's muted, dreamy acrylics, viewed almost as if through a diaphanous screen, are too indistinct in some cases. But the style works well to reinforce the poem's reverent tone, particularly on the final page that features feathery angels looking down into a glowing manger. Suggest this as a holiday bedtime book for very young children. --Gillian Engberg

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