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Long ago in the town of Bethlehem, young Harold the rooster keeps failing to wake the other farm animals in the morning, but when a young woman gives birth to a very special baby in the stable, Harold is finally able to crow loudly and help spread the good news.

A small cat reminisces about events that took place around the manger where it was sleeping on the night the baby Jesus was born.

A poem telling of the birth of a child in a barn among the animals, with illustrations which depict the barn and the people of a twentieth-century farm.

A collection of poems by Jane Yolen, Elizabeth Coatsworth, Norma Farber, and others, each from the point of view of an animal or about the animals in the stable where the Christ Child lay asleep.

Animal mothers gathered around a young woman giving birth to her child in a stable let her know that no mother is a stranger to another anywhere.