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mrs_bonaventure's review
3.0
Read with Charlie several nights over the Christmas holidays. It's both a portrait of a shattered London and a tired populace after the Second World War, a mystic time travel vision through the many ages of the City of London, and a timeless fable from Bethlehem that could have been written in the Middle Ages. The mosh mash doesn't always work and is more of an off the cuff ramble made up for a bedtime story than a polished work of art (Iike The Box of Delights) but is nonetheless enough to draw you in on a dark night. And the illustrations in this edition, by Berwick, deserve as much attention as the text.
katjah's review
3.0
Short nativity story about a fox giving Jesus a gift. It was fine but I wouldn't particularly recommend it. I preferred the start and end bits which centered on the narrator and three boys she takes to the Cathedral for mass, the actual story she tells was a bit too religious for me.
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