The old but ever-new story of the Nativity is here presented, simply and lovingly in rhythmic prose and glowing pictures.

To the story Margaret Wise Brown has brought her great gifts of interpreting the world of childhood in beautiful words. And to the pictures Barbara Cooney has given her own special quality of enchantment, blended with reality, which makes the Christmas story very real and close to home to even the youngest child.

From the dust jacket