This is like reading the Bible except I didn't find the Bible (at least the parts that I've read) dragging.
It's a bit disturbing for a children's book, isn't it? I mean, a girl willingly strayed from her mother to go to a pilgrimage with an angel to see the Child-Christ in the manger ... and the angel let that happen why? Actually, the girl ran after the lamb because she wanted to stroke its soft fleece and she told the angel that and the angel just said, hey whatever you're coming with us. Dear angel, what very important part did that little girl play in the birth of Jesus Christ for you to have her tag along and not just return her to her mother like how you saved the drowning guy somewhere in the story? In the Bible, parents were known to be told to sacrifice their children to prove their faith to God (at least the petty, vindictive, old testament god) but at least they know what will happen to their child if their child disappears. Elisabet's mother was tormented for 50 years not knowing what happened to her little girl. Okay, let's not blame the angel because towards the end it was said she was abducted by people during the war ... yes let's make this a political thing as if it's not confusing to begin with. And then in the end the book still implied that the pilgrimage was what really happened so ... yeah. Psychological roller coaster? Anyone?
Is this a book I'd read to children? Eesh.
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