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This First Christmas Night

by Laura Godwin

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See this small gray donkey,

this long, dusty road,

this promising star.

See this man, Joseph,

this woman, Mary.

Feel the frost on

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this clear Bethlehem night.

Elegant, simple text and luminous art make this an almost hymn-like meditation on the meaning of Christmas and the Nativity story.

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Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

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