Once upon a time, there was a little donkey that had only recently been born. In the winter, his mother warmed him with her breath. Sometimes she told him the bedtime story of the she-donkey that had warmed the Infant Jesus with her breath in the stable of Bethlehem. One day, the mother disappeared. But a little donkey knew where the she-donkey was: in the stable of Bethlehem.

Otfried Preußler / Julian Jusim
DAS ESELCHEN UND
DER KLEINE ENGEL
Thienemann Verlag, 1993
32 pages