by Gale Wiersum (author) and Alex Steele Morgan (illustrator)
This barnyard Christmas story counts all the way up to twelve, beginning with this introduction:
"In the barn on Christmas Eve, After all the people leave, The animals, in voices low, Remember Christmas long ago . . ."
So begins a sweet rhyming story in which a group of animals recount the events surrounding Jesus' birth in the manger, and the parts some of their ancestors played in it, from "One small hen upon her nest," to "Twelve chimes ring[ing] out from far away."
