{"id":45212,"date":"2025-11-17T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/?p=45212"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:29:25","slug":"the-birds-of-christmas-by-olivia-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/the-birds-of-christmas-by-olivia-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birds of Christmas by Olivia Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Birds of Christmas <em>want to honor the birth of Jesus in their own special way in this sweet folktale.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" data-src=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45210 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/800;width:300px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas.jpg 800w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Birds-of-Christmas-96x96.jpg 96w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-birds-of-christmas-by-olivia-armstrong-illustrated-by-mira-miroslavova-eerdmans-2025-40-pages\"><em>The Birds of Christmas <\/em>by Olivia Armstrong, illustrated by Mira Miroslavova. Eerdmans, 2025. 40 pages.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Reading Level<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/category\/book-reviews\/picture-books-2\/\">Picture books, <\/a><\/strong>ages 4-8<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Recommended For<\/strong>: Ages 0-8<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Raven sees a bright light and hears a voice announcing the birth of a special baby. Raven is instructed to go and tell the rest of the birds! When each bird hears, it thinks of a gift: warm coverings made by Wren, special songs by Rooster, feathers for a pillow from Stork. They all swoop into a small stable where a baby lies. One little bird wonders what it has to offer. And then, as the fire dies down and a chill seeps into the air, it knows just what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on a European folktale, this sweet story very much reads like a European folktale (as opposed to a folktale about Jesus&#8217; birth that is more Middle Eastern). The birds are European, the stable pictured looks European, and even the notion of a cold night is more European. Still, this is a lovely story about the gifts each creature can offer to praise the Lord. We know that even the rocks will cry out in praise, why not the birds? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-considerations\">Considerations:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Images<\/strong>: Images of Jesus as a baby.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bottom Line:<\/strong> If your Christmas book stash needs a little something different, look for this well-illustrated, Christ-centered folktale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-recommended-reading-at-redeemed-reader\">Recommended Reading at Redeemed Reader <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Book Review<\/strong>: A similar Christmas folktale is <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/christian-christmas-picture-books-round-up\/\">The Animals Speak<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Book Reviews:<\/strong> More Christmas books you may enjoy: <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/saint-valentine-saint-patrick-saint-nicholas\/\">Saint Nicholas the Giftgiver<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Ned Bustard and <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/great-joy-by-kate-dicamillo\/\">Great Joy<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kate DiCamillo (starred review).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Resource:<\/strong> We also have a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/birds-of-a-feather-a-book-list-for-bird-lovers\/\">Bird Booklist<\/a><\/strong>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3JXrs1k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">You may purchase <em>The Birds of Christmas<\/em> from amazon.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>As with many of the books we review, we received a free copy of this from the publisher in return for a fair, unbiased review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birds of Christmas want to honor the birth of Jesus in their own special way in this sweet folktale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":45210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4012,4013,3,8,17],"tags":[23912,172,269,478,528,765,4175,23882,23831,2507,2669],"class_list":["post-45212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-ages-0-4","category-b-ages-4-8","category-book-reviews","category-fairyfolk-tale","category-picture-books-2","tag-23912","tag-ages-4-8","tag-animals","tag-birds","tag-book-reviews-2","tag-christmas","tag-fairyfolk-talemyth","tag-holidays","tag-listable","tag-nonfiction-2","tag-picture-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v26.2) - 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