Bearing Gifts: A Christmas Adventure

By Steve Arensberg and Polina Kotliar

A Christmas Adventure for All Ages

"On a night long ago, on the first night a bright star shone in the dark sky, the smallest of camels was born in a stable far, far east of Bethlehem."

And so begins our Christmas tale, in which the unlikeliest of heroes joins the pilgrimage of the Three Kings to Bethlehem. Bearing Gifts follows Astor the camel's adventures as he faces the perils of that long journey, carrying to Bethlehem the precious treasures to honor the Christ-child.

Amid his trials and challenges, Astor finds within himself his own precious gifts—strength to bear his burdens, courage to face his fears, and a heart full of light and love.

In the tradition of other Christmas classics like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Little Drummer Boy, Bearing Gifts is an adventure story for children of all ages, to be treasured alongside your family's other favorite holiday tales.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Dec 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543991840

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Bearing Gifts

A Christmas Adventure

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

First Edition

Print ISBN - 978-1-5439918-3-3

Ebook ISBN - 978-1-5439918-4-0

Text copyright © 2019 by Steve Arensberg

Illustrations copyright © 2019 by Polina Kotliar

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Steve’s Dedication

To Romeo Muller,

whose Christmas stories inspired this one

Polina’s Dedication

To my grandparents:

thank you for all of your love and care

in my childhood and throughout my life

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About the Author

About the Illustrator

We Three Kings of Orient are,

Bearing gifts we traverse afar,

Field and fountain, Moor and mountain,

Following yonder Star.

-THREE KINGS OF ORIENT,

  John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1857)