Gennady Spirin

We Three Kings Gennady Spirin

Marc Notes: ; An illustrated edition of the traditional Christmas song.. Publisher Marketing: "We three kings of Orient are; Bearing gifts we traverse afar, Field and fountain, moor and mountain, Following yonder star." Over two thousand years ago, three great kings journeyed across the desert, riding through the heat of day and dark of night. Each from a different region, each beckoned by the same gleaming star, each bearing treasures, each wishing to welcome a newborn asleep in a manger's hay -- a baby named Jesus, who would change the world. This beloved Christmas carol, written in 1857, celebrates the wise men's journey and the first Christmas night. Internationally renowned artist Gennady Spirin pays his own type of homage with paintings so exquisitely detailed and wrought that they, too, are a gift -- to that baby in the manger and to you. Review Citations: School Library Journal 10/01/2007 pg. 104 (EAN 9780689821141, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 10/22/2007 pg. 52 (EAN 9780689821141, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 11/01/2007 pg. 50 (EAN 9780689821141, Hardcover) Wilson Children's Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 609 (EAN 9780689821141, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Spirin, Gennady Gennady Spirin was classically educated at the Moscow Art School at the Academy of Arts and at the Moscow Stroganov Institute. Influenced by Russian Renaissance painters, Mr. Spirin has developed his own unique style of illustration using traditional Russian art techniques. His work appeared four times on the annual New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year list. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.