The Miracle Child

By Elizabeth Laird

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Biography, African setting, Friendship, fiction, Saints, English author, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction, Ethiopian setting, Christian saints

Description: Retells the life of a thirteenth-century Ethiopian who performed many miracles for his people, such as feeding the hungry during a famine and raising the dead to life. Illustrated with paintings from an eighteenth-century illuminated manuscript.