This book is an experiment in making music for the eye rather than the ear.
Ivan Chermayeff made the ilustrations first, without saying what they meant. Then Kurt Vonnegut wrote words to fit the images he saw.
This is a song then, whose music came first.
A simple hymn for printing press. Others may find it entertaining to put their own words to Chermayeff's tune.
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Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1951 and since then he has written many novels, among them: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You Mr Rosewater (1964), Welcome to the Monkey House; a collection of short stories (1968), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), Bluebeard (1988) and Hocus Pocus (1990). During the Second World War he was held prisoner in Germany and was present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience which provided the setting for his most famous work to date, Slaughterhouse Five (1969). He has also published a volume of autobiography entitled Palm Sunday (1981) and a collection of essays and speeches, Fates Worse Than Death (1991).
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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A giggle and a tear jerk.,
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This review is from: Sun Moon Star (Hardcover)
It is quite an odd thing for a biting satirist like Vonnegut to write a children's story. Odder still is the way this one was written. First the artist provided the pictures, then Vonnegut wrote words to fit them. Telling in an unusually "cute" style the sights that met the eyes of Baby Jesus just after being born, the story is likely to make the reader feel young and innocent again
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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The beauty of simplicity,
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This review is from: Sun Moon Star (Hardcover)
A fabulously original take on the birth of Christ.
The simple images serve to compliment Vonnegut's
child-like prose perfectly. The depth of
imagination it takes to write a compelling, joyful
story about the first Christmas, through the eyes
of the baby Jesus, is mind-boggling. Never has a
Christmas story - or rarely a story of any kind -
said so much with so little.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the best,
By lynn w. (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sun Moon Star (Hardcover)
To me this is the best book on the event of the Incarnation I have ever seen. I read it to my children, and still @ Christmas, read it to my husband and myself. It is imaginative, and has a dignity that so many modern children's books lack.
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