What does a little girl and a stable, a boy lost on the way to Bethlehem, a silent shepherd, two inn keepers competing for the most filled inn, angels singing, and a little girl’s discovery in an attic have to do with the Christmas story?

Sara’s Stable, the opening play in a list of plays, tells the story of a little girl’s love for her father’s smelly stable. Sara believes something wonderful will happen there and despite her family’s disapproval of her love for the stable, Sara continues to spend time there. When a man arrives to purchase the stable to put people in it, Sara begs her father not to sell it. She is certain that something wonderful is about to happen in her stable that night!

Marcia K. Kirby is a retired Library Technician from The College of William and Mary, who is married with two sons, the seventh child in a family of twelve of whom she was the first girl who also has a twin brother. Marcia was raised on a farm in Williamsburg, VA and has a certificate from the Famous Writers School, and the Institute of Children’s Literature. The plays written in this book were directed by her and performed in her church.