Silent Night

Content

Long ago, in the Church of St Nicholas in Oberndorf in Austria, Joseph Mohr wrote the words to the Christmas carol, 'Silent Night'. The music was composed by his friend Franz Gruber, to be played on a guitar... because mice had eaten through the organ bellows! This is the beautiful story of the mice that inspired the writing and singing of the famous song, imaginatively told by Vicki Howie and illustrated in a way that will delight young children by Hungarian-born Kriszta Nagy Kallai.

Silent Night is ideal for Children ages 5-7. It also makes an ideal gift from parents, grandparents or godparents, or as a gift or prize from church or Sunday School.

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Author info

Vicki Howie has written collections of children's plays, songs, mimes and crafts as well as a number of books. She runs workshops on children's evangelism and is the Publicity Officer in her local church. She lives in the south of England with her husband and two teenage children. Krisztina Kallai Nagy has her own design and illustration business and loves illustrating children's books. She has illustrated The Lion Storyteller Bible (Lion Hudson, 1995).

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Reviews

From The Good Book Stall Website October 2009

This is the story of the mice that inspired the writing and singing of the Christmas carol 'Silent Night'. The story is told from the viewpoint of the church mice. Now to a little mouse a church is an excellent playground, but loud organ music was bothersome and had to be stopped! This is a lovely re-telling of this familiar story. How the organ was silenced and how the parish priest asked the organist to compose a simple tune to fit the words of a poem the priest had written, that could be played with guitar accompaniment instead of the organ.>BR> The choice of font is just right to set off the attractive illustrations. A lovely book to be brought out year after year.

Reviewed by Mary Bartholomew

Book details

• ISBN: 9781841017051
• Published: 18 September 2009
• Status:
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 32