The Donkey’s First Christmas by S.T. Schroder

The Donkey’s First Christmas by S. T. Schroder is a fun tale about a stubborn donkey that carried baby Jesus’ mother to Bethlehem the night Jesus was born.

The rebel donkey is easy to love because he is portrayed so well, both in the text and in the illustrations.

On the cover the illustrations portray a winter scene with falling snow, though this is not carried out throughout the story. I am a little confused as to whether the illustrator intended this to be snow or stars in the sky except that it appears the snow is below the horizon as well as in the sky and the entire background for the cover is white.

This charming story flows easily in rhyme. Who can resist loving this rebel donkey and the story of how Mary loved him into giving faithful service? The story is long on imagination which carries it a bit outside the Biblical account, but it does so in such an imaginative playful way that I find it hard to imagine anyone taking the discrepancies seriously. What is true to the scriptures is the theme that love wins over all – as Mary’s love inspired the donkey. This book deserves five stars.

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