Appearing in a new miniature format, the classic tale of slumbering animals roused by the brightest star and led to Bethlehem to celebrate Jesus's birth is a charming stocking stuffer and sure to become a Christmas favorite.
NORMA FARBER professionally trained to be an opera singer. Though she had been writing poetry all her life, it wasn't until she turned 50 that her first book of poetry was published. At the time of her death in 1984, she had written 18 books for children.
BARBARA COONEY was a two-time Caldecott award-winner for her books The Ox-Cart Man and The Chanticleer and the Fox. She illustrated over 100 books by the time she died in Maine in 2000.