Sun Moon Star (Hardcover)

by Kurt Vonnegut (Author), Ivan Chermayeff (Author)

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Product Description
When the Creator of the universe came to Earth, It resolved to be born a male human infant, and this is what It saw when It opened Its eyes.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 62 pages
• Publisher: Harper & Row; 1st edition (September 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060263199
• ISBN-13: 978-0060263195
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #734,615 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A giggle and a tear jerk., July 8, 1997

By A Customer

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:

5.0 out of 5 stars The beauty of simplicity, July 27, 1997

By A Customer

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.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sun,Moon, Star, Incarnation, November 23, 2004

By	Elizabeth Kirkley Best PhD "E.K.Best" (Reno,NV) - See all my reviews

I read this book to my own children when they were small. Sun, Moon, Star, is an experiment which worked magnificently. There are thousands of stories and storybooks about Jesus born in a manger, and all his loved ones and visitors: in this book, the reader sees the events of that morning of Glory through the eyes of an infant Savior, seeing the world He created through eyes He created. A miracle of a small Jewish King born to see the world through our eyes, and yet never compromising the Creation he came to redeem.
Vonnegut's book is beautiful and striking in its simplicity of deep rich images, and a simple story containing the grandest meaning of all. This is a classic Christmas story told so uniquely one will return to it in memory years later, for a theological lesson so important, a child alone can grasp it.
Elizabeth K. Best PhD