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Animals of the Bible (Phyllis Fogelman Books) Hardcover – March 10, 2003

by Mary Hoffman (Author), Jackie Morris (Author)

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The author of Parables and Miracles provides nine retellings featuring animals of the Bible, such as ravens, doves, and lions, and the important roles they have played in relation to Biblical figures.

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From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 4-Nine Old Testament stories-five of them from Genesis and most very familiar-are simply told and splendidly illustrated in this lively book. The author's affable conversational style, which is much like live storytelling, is sure to involve listeners. Beginning with "Naming the Animals," the selections flow well from one to another, and the book could easily be read as one long story. Lush, detailed watercolors in shades of brown, gray, and blue, and touches of red accompany the tales, sometimes surrounding the text and depicting all animals, even insects, with grace, dignity, and beauty. References are included at the end, along with brief explanations for a few minor changes, e.g., Jonah is swallowed by a whale rather than a big fish to make the story easier to imagine. This is a much more appealing book than Dorothy P. Lathrop and Helen D. Fish's Animals of the Bible (HarperCollins, 1998), which was a Caldecott winner in 1937, and it makes an ideal introduction to the Bible for the very young.
Susan Oliver, Tampa-Hillsborough Public Library System, FL
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

K-Gr. 3. Hoffman, the author of Parables (2000) and Miracles (2001), now turns to biblical tales featuring animals. The stories are greatly condensed and the tellings are in almost colloquial terms: "Frogs on the stairs and Frogs on the roof. Everyone was miserable except the frogs." Like the Bible itself, the stories will provoke questions about habits in Biblical days ("Well in the end, Jacob married Rachel, too, and had children by both his wives") and about greater issues, such as the question of suffering raised by the story of Jonah and the whale. There's only a brief introduction, but the stories are referenced to their Bible passages in an appendix. Morris' strong, graceful paintings are a beautiful extension of the tales. Some flow past one page of a spread into another; others are used as borders--frogs and locusts climbing the length of the pages. Stand-alone versions of stories like "Noah's Ark" may be more enjoyable for kids, but this is a useful compendium featuring some selections, such as "Daniel in the Lion's Den," not often seen in children's books. Great for reading aloud to little ones; older children can enjoy the book on their own. Ilene Cooper
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dial (March 10, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 32 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0803728425
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0803728424
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 4 - 8 years
Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 2
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.92 x 0.36 x 11.04 inches

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Jackie Morris
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Jackie Morris is an author, illustrator and artist. She lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales, UK. She loves colour, cats, birds and flight, walking, reading, magic and dragons, kites, dandelion clocks, dogs and horses ( especially the black and white heavy footed kind with great liquid eyes) and many other things.
Above the house where she lives is a rare thing, a dark sky where stars are clear and visible, and every night she walks, watching the moon wax and wain and the stars turn across the ocean of air.
If she could have one special thing it would be a time machine so that the days could be longer.
She has written and illustrated a few books.
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Mary Hoffman
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Mary Hoffman is the UK author of well over a hundred published books, mainly for children and teenagers. Recently she has written two adult novels under the pseudonyms Kate Snow and Amy Lovell.
She is well known for picture books like Amazing Grace and its sequels and the YA sequence Stravaganza as well as historical fiction like The Falconer's Knot and information book like The Great Big Book of Families.
She has won a few prizes and her books have been translated into 30 languages. She lives in a converted barn near Oxford and has three grown-up daughters all working in the arts.
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