The Road to Bethlehem: An Ethiopian Nativity

by Elizabeth Laird

Book Overview

An Ethiopian retelling of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus illustrated with traditional works of art. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805005390
• ISBN13: 9780805005394
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

Ethiopian illuminations and nativity story

This book is beautifully produced - the illustrations are old manuscript illuminations from Ethiopia. Beside each illustration is a bit of information explaining the iconography of the illustration. The art itself could be the entire book.The text is a retelling of the nativity story uniting the canonical stories with folk and apocryphical nativities stories. The only other modern text I have seen treat the stories with such respect is Linney's Jesus Tales.The result is a book that exhibits the early and natural expression of the wonder of the nativity. I highly recommend this book.