The Little Jesus of Sicily

Fortunato Pasqualino
Translated from the Italian by Louise Rozier
Artwork by Ken Stout

This work—in which the author describes the day when as a child he was chosen to be Jesus for the Feast of Saint Joseph—has been characterized as a poem in prose or as a basic canticle for celebrating life. The setting is pastoral Sicily shortly before World War II, and a child from a poor family has been entrusted to be the Messiah for one momentous day. (more …)

1999, 96 pages, illustrations
$22.00 cloth, 1-55728-572-1
$16.95 paper, 1-55728-573-X