A small mistreated donkey is sold to a carpenter, who finds the animal very helpful in transporting his wife and new son when the family flees from Bethlehem to Egypt after the king decrees all baby boys must be killed.
After finding less and less food in the alley where he lives, Charlie, a cat, decides to move to the country, where he can drink milk, climb trees, and play Tiger in the Grass
Kathryn Jackson, Christina Rossetti, Gale Wiersum, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Florence Page Jaques, Phillips Brooks, Sylvia Emrich
Hardcover
(Western Publishing Company Inc, Sept. 1, 1984)
Christmas poems accompany the stories of a rabbit family and Santa's first colored Christmas lights, and descriptions of Christmas customs around the world