A story for children about Jesus's first day from the perspective of the baby Jesus. Who is your child's sun, moon, and star?

Vonnegut starts off in typical Vonnegut fashion, discussing the humanity of Jesus complete with a diagram of the eyes he saw the world with.

I really wish the whole book had continued in the same vein as the first few pages. But then again, if it had, it probably wouldn't have been a children's book any longer.

Marvelous Son Moon Star

This book is a wonderfully written review of Creation. Written in simple words so that a child may understand. Illustrated in such thoughtful pictures. Easy for children to understand and causing adults to be moved to see more in the illustrations. I can't wait to share it with my grandchildren.

didn't really like this telling of the birth of Jesus, illustrations were boring too

I never knew Kurt Vonnegut had written a children's book.

It reads more as a poem with pictures, really, but it's lovely. It's simple yet so imaginative, and as a Christmas story it goes back to the basics but feels so different. More of a review to come.

A wonderful deist-leaning retelling of the Christmas story. My favorite!

This is a real departure from what we usually expect from the late Mr. Vonnegut. It is a children's book in which KV reveals his own version of the story of the birth of Christ. It is charming and the illustrations by Ivan Chermayeff compliment the text quite nicely. This is not the biblical version, but KV's personal viewpoint. At times his language is a bit mature for a children's book, but it is still a delight, especially if an adult is reading it to the child and can explain what some of the words and phrases mean. That makes it a very nice opportunity for conversation between parent and child.
It is, as seems inevitable when KV is involved, a bit quirky, but that only adds to the charm of the book. It is a pleasant surprise from the posthumous archive left behind by KV when he died. As always, he is still full of surprises.

A creative retelling of the Christmas story with whimsical illustrations. Good enough that I incorporated it into my liturgy for the first Sunday of Advent.

A little advanced for a toddler, would make for a good Christmas book. Interesting...

There are a few children’s books that we adults consider rare gems that are to be treasured for enumerable years and passed down to our children, and their children, and so on. For me those books include The Giving Tree, Charlotte’s Web, Where the Wild Things Are, and I Love You Forever. Now I add to that list this wonderfully creative tale of the birth of Jesus told from his prospective. This story captures the heart of the moment in a very unique way. The illustrations are simplistically beautiful and add a depth to the narrator’s voice that is comforting. If you have not read this story I encourage you to look for it this Christmas season. I have a feeling it will be added to your family’s treasures for years to come.

The omnipotent Creator limited to a small, fragile, human body, adapting to perceiving the world through "rubbery little cameras."

Kurt Vonnegut writing a children's book about the first day of the life of the Baby Jesus? YES PLEASE.

Vonnegut's view on society and life can be, by many, construed as absurd and childish. That may be true, but no one else has mastered the art of looking at that society as an outsider, with a truly opened mind, explaining and defining that societies happenings in a truly new, fascinating, and sometimes frighteningly accurate way.

This book, even as a short children's book, is a wonderful vignette of the brain of one of the greatest American writers of all time.

The concept of this book, regardless of story line, is also very interesting. An illustrator does all the art work, but does not tell the writer what the pictures mean. The writer then makes up a story to the pictures he is given with no explanation.

When those artists are Ivan Chermayeff and Kurt Vonnegut, well, only absolute brilliance will follow.

So it goes.