Animals Speak: A Christmas Eve Legend
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A fresh retelling of a Christmas legend, told through joyful song by the first witnesses to the baby in the manger: the animals. Long ago and even today, the story is told of how all the animals in the world, at the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve, speak. With their newfound power of speech, the animals rejoice at the birth of Jesus, born humbly in a manger and surrounded by animals. Singing in treetops, braying in stables, barking in yards–the animals all rejoice and proclaim, “The Child is come.” With rich illustrations and lyrical text, Newbery Honor Award-winner Marion Dane Bauer delights readers of all ages with this fresh telling of a classic Christmas legend.
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Marion Dane Bauer is an award-winning author of more than one hundred books for young people, including the Newbery Honor Book On My Honor. Formerly on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, she now writes full-time. Marion Dane Bauer lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9781506466439
- Publication Date
- October 5, 2021
- Publisher
- Beaming Books
- Page Count
- 32
- Reading Age
- 3 - 8 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2020056546
- Lexile® Level
- AD560L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~N
- Est. ATOS® Book Level
- ~3.7
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