The Little Drummer Boy

Name: The Little Drummer Boy
Brand: Scholastic Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ezra Jack Keats
ISBN: 9780545749343

Author: Ezra Jack Keats, Katherine Davis

Narrator: John Jennings

Unabridged: 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Weston Woods

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Children's Fiction, Religious Stories, Christian, Holiday Stories, Historical Stories

Synopsis

"""Evocatively portrays this story of a boy who was so poor that his gift to Jesus was his drumming.""- Publisher's Weekly"A procession travels to Bethlehem, bringing gifts for the newborn baby Jesus. The little drummer boy comes along, although he is too poor to bring a present fit for a king. Instead, he plays a song on his drum for the Christ Child. Within the little drummer boy's seemingly simple gift lies the true spirit of Christmas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Calista on December 01, 2017

Simple book. Pictures to go with the words of the song with the same title. The art is nice. Great for a 2-3 year old.......more

Goodreads review by Ben on December 11, 2018

Little Drummer Boy is a children's picture book of the Christmas carol original written by Katherine Kennicott Davis and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. It is a book depicting the classical Christmas song in the 1940s. The text is simplistic and straightforward. It is the lyrics of the Little Drummer......more

Goodreads review by Denise on February 19, 2020

I picked this up as part of reading through the author's works. I can't really say that the author wrote this, but his illustrations were beautiful. They tell the story of the well known Christmas carol. It would be nice to read as a family during Christmas time.......more

Goodreads review by Becky on December 31, 2023

One of the books my kids ask for every Christmas. The text is the song of the same name, rum-pum -pums included. The Ezra Jack Keats pictures are what makes it worthwhile, IMO.......more