Baboushka - Hardcover

Scholey, Arthur

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0763616192 ISBN 13: 9780763616199

Publisher: Candlewick Pr, 2001

Synopsis

This holiday Baboushka tale blends the Nativity with the tradition of Christmas gift giving.

Everyone in the village is bubbling with excitement about the new star in the sky—everyone except old Baboushka, who is busy sweeping, scouring, and polishing her house. Then three strangers arrive. When Baboushka invites them to stay the night, they ask her to join their search for a new baby—an infant king. But Baboushka is too busy with her chores. When at last she follows, bearing gifts for the baby, the newborn king is gone. Some say Baboushka continues her search to this very day, and at Christmas—whenever she sees a sleeping child or hears of good deeds—she will lift a toy from her basket and leave it.

About this title

Product Description:

The book is brand new and will be dispatched from UK.

Review:

'The talents of Scholey and Cann combine in a poignant version of this timeless story about the old peasant woman... Her fluctuating emotions are skilfully caught in the cadences of the prose and, even more strikingly perhaps, in Cann's pictures, many of them rich in symbolic detail.' Irish Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0763616192
• ISBN 13: 9780763616199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Cann Helen