Angela and the Baby Jesus, Frank McCourt
Angela and the Baby Jesus, Frank McCourt
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Angela and the Baby Jesus

Author: Frank McCourt

Narrator: Frank McCourt

Unabridged: 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2007


Synopsis

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM, ANGELA’S CHRISTMAS

The six year old Angela looks at the naked baby Jesus in her local church in Limerick, Ireland, circa 1912, and thinks he looks cold. She wonders why his mother, or one of the shephards, doesn't put a blanket over him. She decides to take him to her bedroom and wrap him in her own blanket. The journey home is a bit difficult and when the disappearance is discovered, the whole parish is very, very upset. But Angela does carry the baby back to church, and all turns out well.

About Frank McCourt

Frank McCourt (1930–2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, Angela’s Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He is also the author of the memoirs 'Tis and Teacher Man. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on December 13, 2023

A sweet and funny picture book by Frank McCourt and romantically illustrated by Raul Colon about McCourt's mother who at six (we are told) felt sorry for the nearly naked and probably freezing baby Jesus in the creche at St Joseph's, hid out in the confessional (nice touch!) til no one else was arou......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on December 27, 2019

When Angela sees the Christ Child lying in his crib at St. Joseph's Church, near her home in Limerick, Ireland, the young girl believes that he must be terribly cold. Determined to spare the child a form of suffering which which she is all too familiar, she steals him, taking him home in order to ke......more