the shepherd the angel and walter the christmas miracle dog

(This story was touching in both sad ways and happy ways.) Then, the ending was so nice that I didn't feel I had to cry anymore! The narrator, who is the main character, was excellently performed by Dave Barry.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? Which character – as performed by Dave Barry – was your favorite? You will have to listen to the story to discover who he is. I might even listen to it every Christmas from now on! If you are a dog-lover or if you have ever been in a Christmas pageant, you will also enjoy this story. It is also thoroughly heart-warming and quite appropriate for the Christmas season. With the sorts of incidents that happen to all kids nearing adolescence, it's genuinely funny. It made me laugh out loud in the pool! Yes, this is an Audio Kids book BUT I really think anyone born in the 50s or 60s would just love it! I know that my kids (born in the 80s and 90s) would love it too! It is read by Dave Barry and sounds like a reminisce. I began listening to this story while I was swimming laps. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? And you may never look at a manger scene the same way again.įunny, heart-warming story for baby-boomers! And for Doug and his family, this will be the most miraculous Christmas of all.ĭave Barry has been delighting readers for decades with his newspaper columns, nonfiction, novels for adults, and novels for children, but this book is something special: a story for all ages that will touch the heart and make you laugh out loud. Elkins yell at all of them the girl he likes is playing Mary opposite a Joseph who is depressingly smart and athletic and cute the family dog is doing very poorly, and they have no idea what they're going to tell Doug's little sister, Becky, who's playing one of the Host of Angels and who loves the dog more than anything and his dad's just gotten a flat tire, which means they might not even get to the pageant at all.īut Christmas is a time of miracles. Doug's fellow shepherds are hacking around, which makes Mrs. Doug is a shepherd this year, which is better than being a 'Three King', because, for one thing, you get to carry a stick.īut there are problems everywhere. Elkins - who used to be in 'The Theater' in New York, and who is tall and skinny, with hair the color of the orange part of a candy corn - is a very big deal. John's Episcopal Church, directed by Mrs. The year is 1960, and, as it is every year, the Christmas pageant at St. 'My name is Doug Barnes, and this stuff happened on Christmas Eve in my town, which is Asquont, New York.'

The shepherd the angel and walter the christmas miracle dog