Every Man Heart Lay Down

by Lorenz B. Graham

Book Overview

The story of Christ's birth told in the striking English idiom of Liberia. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563971844
• ISBN13: 9781563971846
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.8" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

Book helps find "Roots"

Great service from the seller. African version of the Christmas Story. An africian-american coworker initially was offended by what she thought was a "white" attempt to make the story sound "black". When she read the introduction and realized the history and research that went into this story she recognized it as part of her "roots" that she was excited to pass on to her own children.

I love this book!

I first purchased this book 14 years ago for my nephew, and I'm back to purchase it for my daughter. It is such a gorgeously written version of the birth of Christ. It's just so lovely and heartfelt. I can't say enough good things about it. It became part of my sister's Christmas tradition with her children, and now it will become part of mine. I'm so glad I found this book again!

The Christmas Story retold!

I grew up hearing this book (written by my great-grandfather) every christmas morning. It has become a tradition, all of the kids sitting at the feet of our mother as she read the story, her voice flowing over the melody of the words. Often we wouldn't understand a phrase, but she would explain it how her mother had explained it and how the author himself had lovingly explained it to his daughter, my grandmother. Not everyone who has read this book will have the experience I have had in reading it, but all the same, it touches the heart of everyone who has heard it read.