Certain Poor Shepherds: A Christmas Tale
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0763670626 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The day was the first of winter. Lila, the sheepdog, and Ima, the goat, are compelled to follow the star on a journey to a humble manger in Bethlehem, a journey beset with danger, adventure, and love. A dog, a goat, and their flock follow the sight and scent of a star in a beautifully illustrated, keenly observed Nativity story.The story begins on a cold upland pasture where coarse grass and scrub cedar grew. It was 0. And the year of our Lord was not 1900 or 1600 or even 100. On that night a white goat, Ima, and a huge, gray short-haired sheepdog, Lila, were keeping watch over a small flock of young sheep.Bright and dazzling, a star appears behind the cedars on the eastern skyline. It is big and powerful, and it has a pure, clean scent, like something halfway between honey and water. The hour was midnight. In a story alive with insight and grace, best-selling author Elizabeth Scott Thomas brings us a striking portrait of the Nativity story from the captivating point of the view of the animal kingdom.
Kenya Starflight said Quick and thoughtful Christmas book for the animal lover. I'm a sucker for a good Christmas story -- sentimentality gets a pass around the holidays, and I can always use a good heartwarming tale this time of year. I also have a soft spot for animal stories, both fictional and real -- animals have something very valuable to say about our world and our own humanity, I feel,. A Unique and Poignant Christmas Tale Terrie This book is a little treasure and one of my favorites. It's the story of the night of Christ's birth as perceived by the animals. It is told with great sensitivity by reknowned animal lover Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as such it is filled with eye-opening empathy and poignant beauty. It has an interesting take o. "Depressing "Certain Poor Shepherds"" according to A Customer. I'm glad I bought this book on a marked-down sale. It was the most depressing dog/Christmas book I have read in my life. The angels did not possess supernatural powers - they had to eat acorns and grass, were injured and could be attacked by an eagle. And the poor animals, their whole lives were nothing but lonelin
Her pilgrims are a wise goat named Ima and a huge warrior sheepdog , Lila. The deliberately simple but well-honed prose makes this story suitable for family reading, and Marshall's attribution of human thoughts and emotions to her animal characters should delight sentimentalists. They are on the mountain guarding a herd of sheep when the star appears, and they immediately sense divinity in the air. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Simultaneous audio. Later, they see a flock of angels invisible to their master. But the epilogue, in which Marshall muses that "perhaps our hope of redemption lies in the fact that we are animals, not that we are people," will not make this book a favorite of fundamentalist Christians. After Ima and Lila experience several dangerous adventures, an uplifting ending, in which they are rewarded by an angel whom Ima had saved fr