After the shepherds leave and while Joseph sleeps, Mary holds her baby boy Jesus, rejoicing and marveling over her role in his nativity.

Saint Francis, who loves all animals, explains to a sullen donkey why his kind have always had to work hard, but also tells him of a donkey's role in the first Christmas.

Relates how a crippled young shepherd comes to accompany the three Kings on their way to pay hommage to the newborn Jesus.

A snake, scorpion, toad, bat, cockroach, spider, and rat tell how they witnessed the birth of the Christ Child.

A baby owl asks his mother all about the Holy Child who he sees sleeping in their stable home.

Three wise women follow a bright star to find a very special newborn baby in a stable, where each of them is able in her own way to give the child a gift.

Retells the story of the birth of Jesus from the Annunciation to the return to Nazareth after the Holy Family's stay in Egypt.

A cat living in a stable in Bethlehem purrs Jesus to sleep the night he was born.

A lonely cow about to give birth on a cold winter's night finds shelter in a deserted shed with a man and a woman who are also having a baby.

A simple version of the Christmas story.