Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale Board book – Illustrated, October 7, 2008

This is just a beautiful book. I have bought it as a gift for many. My children are older and I still read this to them every year.

I was looking for a Christmas book that would be appropriate for my young granddaughters, yet would address our Savior in some way. Very beautifully illustrated story.

Cute story to introduce the birth of Jesus. I loved it for my LDS kids and perfect for little ones who haven't heard about Jesus yet.

This is a sweet, beautiful book. It's a large picture book and each page is as beautiful as the cover. Pictures take up the whole page with the text embedded in the picture.I used to teach first grade and we would read lots of different versions of the same story or theme. I still do this today for my own son, who turned 5 right after Christmas. Last year we did the 12 days of Christmas. (He was into counting.) This year, we did the nativity story. This was my favorite version we read.Animals come to the stable one after another and the kind ox invites each one to come in to share his shelter. Children love this kind of repetition, they feel both empowered by knowing what is going to happen next (another animal will come to the door) and curious (what animal will it be this time?) One theme of the book is that of animals that are usually predator and prey are calling a truce for their mutual benefit of a warm, safe place. That theme will be lost on young children - to them, of course all the animals would stay together to be warm! A theme that does come through loud and clear is kindness and sharing. The ox has a warm place to sleep and invites others to share it with him rather than just keep it to himself.Finally, donkey comes to the door. Donkey is carrying Mary. Ox invites Donkey and his family in and Mary has baby Jesus during the night. It's a different point of view on Mary and Joseph. Rather than being on the outside with Mary and Joseph wondering where they will stay, we are on the inside safe and warm with Ox, and we see Mary and Joseph on the outside. I think this helps young children understand the predicament Mary and Joseph were in at a very basic level - They needed a warm place to stay and have their baby. Children don't understand taxes, let alone journeying to pay them. Nor do they really understand the concept of an inn or hotel and no one having any openings - it's outside their sphere of understanding. But children understand needing to be safe and warm.A beautiful book with a beautiful story and message.

I absolutely love this book it was one of the first books I read to my son. He has loved books since he was 2 months and this was always one of his favorites. I think it's a nice spin on the story of when Jesus was born to be told from the animals who were around him. I just hope this book never gets turned away from children now that they want to take God out of everything else we knew. Christmas is the story of Jesus birth its the reason we celebrate not for Santa Claus so to put an X instead of Christ defeats the purpose of why Christians celebrate that day. We aren't banning Hannah or Kwanza BC everyone doesn't follow their faith. I hope to find more books like Room for a little one, so our children can continue to learn about all of the reasons we have the traditions we hold and what events were important to us from the past.

My granddaughter begged me to read this book to her over and over as she was growing up. She now is grown and wants a copy of her own to read to her children. Hard back book is good quality and worth the price.

I love finding (and buying) Christmas books for my kids each year, and we have all the classics... and then some. The one is by far my favorite: sweet, simple, and beautifully illustrated. It plays on the "no room at the inn" trope, but instead, old farm animals welcome newcomers -- including a new baby, of course. I tear up every time! (Oh, and my kids (4 and 18mo) love it, too!)

I purchased this book to be one of our Advent books this year for my 3-year-old daughter. This was probably my least favorite out of the 24 books I found. The illustrations are pretty enough and the text is predictably repetitive. Animals come into the stable one by one and find rest, ending with the Tired Donkey, who of course brings the Holy Family as “There is always room for a Little One.” This book would probably have been better when my daughter was younger (1 or 2 years of age). Overall, a simple sweet book, but definitely geared for a younger audience.

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Such a cute story based on the real meaning of Christmas.

Fantastic condition as new. A beautiful story with outstanding illustrations. Really charming with appeal to all ages from 3 upwards. It has a lovely message that everyone is welcome in the barn from mouse to human.

Bought for grandchildren of 3 and 4. A simple Nativity story with truly beautiful full page illustrations of the animals in the stable.