Sun, Moon, Star

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Ivan Chermayeff

Book Overview

Sun Moon Star is the story of the birth of Jesus, as told by Kurt Vonnegut. This children's book takes the new-born Jesus' perspective, offering beautiful and insightful descriptions of the world from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060263199
• ISBN13: 9780060263195
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the best

To me this is the best book on the event of the Incarnation I have ever seen. I read it to my children, and still @ Christmas, read it to my husband and myself. It is imaginative, and has a dignity that so many modern children's books lack.

Sun,Moon, Star, Incarnation

I read this book to my own children when they were small. Sun, Moon, Star, is an experiment which worked magnificently. There are thousands of stories and storybooks about Jesus born in a manger, and all his loved ones and visitors: in this book, the reader sees the events of that morning of Glory through the eyes of an infant Savior, seeing the world He created through eyes He created. A miracle of a small Jewish King born to see the world through our eyes, and yet never compromising the Creation he came to redeem. Vonnegut's book is beautiful and striking in its simplicity of deep rich images, and a simple story containing the grandest meaning of all. This is a classic Christmas story told so uniquely one will return to it in memory years later, for a theological lesson so important, a child alone can grasp it. Elizabeth K. Best PhD

The beauty of simplicity

A fabulously original take on the birth of Christ. The simple images serve to compliment Vonnegut's child-like prose perfectly. The depth of imagination it takes to write a compelling, joyful story about the first Christmas, through the eyes of the baby Jesus, is mind-boggling. Never has a Christmas story - or rarely a story of any kind - said so much with so little.

A giggle and a tear jerk.

It is quite an odd thing for a biting satirist like Vonnegut to write a children's story. Odder still is the way this one was written. First the artist provided the pictures, then Vonnegut wrote words to fit them. Telling in an unusually "cute" style the sights that met the eyes of Baby Jesus just after being born, the story is likely to make the reader feel young and innocent again