FICTION

The Gifts They Gave

by Patricia Reeder EUBANK
illus. by author. 24p. Sterling. 2013. RTE $9.95. ISBN 978-1-4549-0508-0.
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PreS-Gr 3—Eubank has slightly modified the traditional carol made famous by Johnny Cash and added a bright array of sentimentally reverent illustrations of the animals that contributed gifts to the baby Jesus. For example, "'I,' said the sheep with the curly horn,/'I gave him my wool for a blanket warm./He wore my coat on Christmas morn. I,' said the sheep with the curly horn." The plodding quatrains work better as a song than as poetry and the undistinguished watercolors with big-eyed animals do not add much.—Anne Connor, formerly at Los Angeles Public Library
Reviewed by Anne Connor , Oct 01, 2013

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