Maria Gives Birth to a Child

Maria føder et barn

Kim Fupz Aakeson retells the most well-known tale from the Bible - the Christmas Gospel - in a playful language, full of humour.

Kim Fupz Aakeson is an award-winning, best-selling writer of children's books.

Signe Kjær knew she wanted to draw books from the age of seven. Today, she has illustrated over 30 books and in 2021 she was awarded the Ministry of Culture's Illustrator Award.

Maria Gives Birth to a Child

Maria føder et barn

Kim Fupz Aakeson retells the most well-known tale from the Bible - the Christmas Gospel - in a playful language, full of humour.

Signe Kjær

Kim Fupz Aakeson is an award-winning, best-selling writer of children's books.

Signe Kjær knew she wanted to draw books from the age of seven. Today, she has illustrated over 30 books and in 2021 she was awarded the Ministry of Culture's Illustrator Award.

Synopsis

Maria is in love and engaged to be married with Joseph. Everything is as it should be. Until the archangel, Gabriel, shows himself to her and says: "You will give birth to a child. A son. A human child." But how can that be right, when Maria has never been with a man?

"The son you will give birth to, is God's son, the Son of Heaven", the archangel Gabriel tells her. And Maria gets it, but what on earth is she supposed to say to Joseph?