Kenney. The Stable that Bob Built

The Stable that Bob Built is a children's book by Cindy Kenney, with art by Greg Hardin and Robert Vann, published in 2004. It is available at the Internet Archive.

This is a Veggie Tales book! More about Veggie Tales at Wikipedia. The book opens with a Bible quote... and with Larry the Cucumber... as a cow!

The whole book is populated with Veggie Tale characters; here is how the chain builds up in rhyming couplets, starting with Bob and Larry (the cow), but ending with the birth of Jesus:

This is the baby, Savior born,
on that very first Christmas morn,
the reason the star had shown the way
for three wise men, who walked all day,
to find the man, who God designed,
to love the woman, so young and kind,
that the angel told the shepherd to find.
She showed the way to the shepherd with pie,
who cared for his lambs, all cuddly and spry,
that wandered off and followed the guy,
who didn't know how to milk the cow
that mooed in the stable that Bob built.

It is told in cumulative style; here's how things stand when the angel appears:

Then the story ends with an extra rhyme in honor of the veggies:

These are the Veggies who played the parts
in the story that lives in all of our hearts,
to share the news of the Savior born
on that very first Christmas morn,
all in the ... Stable that Bob built.