We Were There by Eve Bunting

Author:Eve Bunting [Bunting, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The little lambs as soft as lilies of the field. The woman, swollen, waiting.

No one will look beyond the light to darkness and the corner where we watch, unwatched.

They will not know or care.

But we were there.

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Clarion Books

a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint

215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003

Text copyright © 2001 by Eve Bunting

Illustrations copyright © 2001 by Wendell Minor

The text was set in 18-point Centaur with Shelly Allegro initial caps.

The illustrations were painted in gouache and watercolors on cold-press watercolor board.

Book design by Wendell Minor.

All rights reserved.

For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to

Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003.

www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com

Printed in the U.S.A.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bunting, Eve, 1928–

We were there / Eve Bunting ; paintings by Wendell Minor.

p. cm.

Summary: A snake, scorpion, toad, bat, cockroach, spider, and rat tell how they witnessed the birth of the Christ Child.

ISBN 0-395-82265-3

I. Jesus Christ—Nativity—Juvenile fiction. [I. Jesus Christ—Nativity—Fiction. 2. Animals—Fiction.] I. Minor, Wendell, ill. II.Title.

PZ7.B91527 Wg 2001

[E]—dc21 00-065731

BVG 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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