Item
A Christmas Fable
- Title
- en_US A Christmas Fable
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US First edition
- en_US Mark Karlins
- Creator
- en_US Karlins, Mark See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Hyde, Maureen
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:29:29Z
- en_US 1996-11
- en_US 1990
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:29:29Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1990
- Abstract
- en_US A disappointing attempt, I would say, at a contemporary mythology. A good old country Christmas is interrupted when Old Grimble comes to Grandma's house with a wounded deer and a prophecy: there will be no Christmas, since on this night animals are to be blessed, not hurt. Mama, a herb woman, stayed up with the deer. Christmas did not in fact come. On the third day, all sorts of neighbors show up with gifts of food for the deer. Grimble comes back and compliments Mama. The deer starts to recover. Grimble leaves, and the sky grows brighter for the first time in the three days. The next morning Christmas has arrived. Grimble is near, and the animals are stirring. Sorry, but I think traditional Christian mythology can do much better!
- Identifier
- en_US 689314809
- en_US 3045 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Atheneum: Macmillan Publishing Company
- en_US New York
- Subject
- en_US PZ7.K14245 Ch 1990 See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books