Christmas in the Stable

A child sits on his mother's lap and asks about Christmas. And she tells him how it was, long ago, when a woman and a man found shelter in a stable in the darkness. In the middle of the night, the woman gave birth to her child there. All the stars were shining in the sky—but the brightest and biggest one beamed over the stable, where the newborn child lay in the manger...
Astrid Lindgren's classic story of the first Christmas—vivid and moving.