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Dixon, Ann

Waiting for Noel: An Advent Story

32 pp. | Eerdmans | September, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-8028-5192-4 $$16.00
1996
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Mark Graham. In lyrical prose, a little girl's father tells of the preparations that led up to her Christmas birth. The lighting of the candles in the family's Advent wreath connects the story of the girl's birth to the joy surrounding the Nativity. The formal, poetic text seems oddly distanced from the father and child pictured in the sentimental paintings, which feature the rosy-cheeked family members awaiting the girl's birth.
Reviewer: Anne St. John

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