Our Very Own Christmas - Hardcover

Langen, Annette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735840881 ISBN 13: 9780735840881

Publisher: NorthSouth, 2012

Synopsis

 

A brother and sister joyfully re-enact the events of Christmas in this sweetly illustrated picture book. With flashlights and their imaginations in hand, the siblings make their way from the walls of their house to the snowy fields of Bethlehem. With big sister whispering the words to her younger brother, the young actors take little listeners along on their adventure celebrating the birth of Jesus.

About this title

About the Author:

Annette Langen was brought up in a booksellers’ family. Books have always fascinated her and she decided after many years of work and travel to become a children’s book author. Her first book was published in 1989. Many of her books are ‘family tested’ with the help of her two children.

Marije Tolman studied illustration and graphic design at the Royal Academy for Visual Arts and at the Edinburgh Class for Art in Scotland. She works full-time as a children's book illustrator in the Netherlands.

From School Library Journal:

PreS-Gr 1-Kelly and her little brother pretend to be Mary and Joseph, journeying to Bethlehem, looking for shelter, welcoming baby Jesus, and thanking the three kings for their gifts. The touching illustrations show the small children wandering through an impressionistic, snowy landscape populated with sheep, bunnies, and other animals, using a sleigh filled with pieces of wood as props in their game. The text is a bit awkward, possibly because of the translation-veering from present tense to the conditional and back again, and sounds stilted in places. Well-meaning but not essential.-Eva Mitnick, Los Angeles Public Library α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

About this edition

• Publisher: NorthSouth
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0735840881
• ISBN 13: 9780735840881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Tolman Marije