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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 1997
Gr 2-4 A book that starts as a quietly written, nicely patterned story of two children who help to unpack and set up the wax figures of the manger scene in the Church of St. Nicola in Oberndorf, Austria, in 1818. The present-tense narrative lends immediacy to the scene, and the addition of the children's commentary adds to the book's appeal: "ODid the lambs keep the Baby wa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More