cover image They Followed a Bright Star

They Followed a Bright Star

Joan Alavedra. Putnam Publishing Group, $16.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-399-22706-6

First published in the U.S. in 1994, They Followed a Bright Star, based on a poem by Spanish poet Joan Alavedra, illus. by Ulises Wensell, returns to print. This lyrical, radiantly illustrated story tells of those like the fisherman and plowman who, less dramatically but no less powerfully than the shepherds, served Jesus on the night of his birth.