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Angela and the Baby Jesus


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Published: 2007

Great for age 5-12 years

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A beautifully illustrated Christmas story from one of the world's most loved writers. In 'Angela and the Baby Jesus', McCourt revisits his mother's childhood. Set in Limerick at the turn of the century, 'Angela and the Baby Jesus' is the story of the Christmas when Angela was six and concerned about the baby Jesus on the altar of St. Joseph's Church near School House Lane where her family lived. The story is written in the voice in which Frank McCourt's told his internationally bestselling and award winning 'Angela's Ashes'. The story is illustrated by Loren Long. Like Dylan Thomas' 'A Child's Christmas in Wales', it is for readers of all ages.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book was published in 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Frank McCourt's first book, Angela's Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He taught in various New York City high schools and in city colleges. His sequel to Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, continued its predecessor's huge success, as did Teacher Man, his memoir about being a New York high school teacher. He lives with his wife in New York. Loren Long is a Midwesterner - he grew up in Missouri and attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington. After graduating with a BA in Graphic Design/Studio Art, he pursued graduate-level studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He and his wife, Tracy, have two sons. You can find him at www. lorenlong. com.

 

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Dublin Airport Authority Book Award - Irish Children's Book Of the Year Junior
This book was recognised in the Irish Children's Book Of The Year Junior category of the Dublin Airport Authority Book Award.

Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children's Book of the Year Award - Junior
This book was recognised in the Junior category by the Dublin Airport Authority Irish Children's Book of the Year Award.

Praise for 'Teacher Man': 'McCourt has a compulsion to tell us the story of his life, but he does it so well -- modulating beautifully from ventriloquistically exact repro teen-speak to rhapsodic meditations on his midlife crisis -- that one couldn't possibly want him to stop. I wish I could have been in one of his classes.' Sunday Times 'This memoir about teaching is unlike any other I have read: relatively mundane events and incidents shine against that backdrop of that pathetic, abused child.' Francis Gilbert, Sunday Telegraph Praise for 'Angela's Ashes': 'An astonishing book!completely mesmerising -- you can open it almost at random and find writing to make you gasp.' Independent Praise for 'Tis': 'Few will be able to resist this pacey and fluent sequel!McCourt's gift lies not simply in having lived through interesting times, but in having developed his skills as an editor and narrator to produce two fine, funny and moving slices of a past that is not simply Ireland's, but everyone's.' Guardian