Agatha Christie wrote the stories for The Star Over Bethlehem at a respectable age, having a great life experience and a formed Christian worldview, as well as the fame of the queen of the detective genre. However, these are not detective stories, but at the same time not traditional Christmas stories either. The six stories for family reading - about the birth of Jesus, His mother Mary, His donkey, His disciples and followers, as well as Agatha Christie's contemporaries - touch the depths of the soul and make you think about many things. They also bring light and hope. And they open the readers of the first Ukrainian translation of this collection to an unexpected Agatha Christie.