Jonah? Jonah, are you listening?' 'Yes, God' 'Go to Nineveh ... The people there do bad things. They make me sad. Go to Nineveh, Jonah - tell them I'm their friend and I want them to stop.' But Jonah doesn't want to go to Nineveh, so he runs away and gets thrown overboard a ship. What will happen to him next?
This book has been graded for interest at 3-6 years.
There are 32 pages in this book.
This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).
This book was published in 2017 by SPCK Publishing .
Sophie Piper is also the author of My Confirmation Book and Poems & Prayers for Easter , both published by Paraclete. Alexa Tewkesbury is a children's writer whose books include It's A Boy! The Christmas Star's Big Shine The Topz Secret Diaries, What's Christmas, The Perfect Christmas Present and The Camel Who Found Christmas. Authors and illustrators include Lois Rock, Bob Hartman, Christina Goodings, Mig Holder, Alex Ayliffe, Christina Balit and Helen Cann. Bethan James, a former teacher and youth worker, has written a number of books for children. She lives with her husband and children in a rural part of England. Estelle Corke is based in the west of England, where she lives with her husband and young daughter. She works in guache, watercolour and pen and ink. Alex Ayliffe is a bestselling author and illustrator. Her characteristic paper collage illustrations won her the Sainsbury's Best Book for Babies award.
This book contains the following story:
Jonah and the Whale
Long ago there lived a man called Jonah. One day God spoke to him: 'Jonah you must go to Nineveh. The people there do bad things. You must tell them to mend their ways.' But Jonah didn’t want to go to Nineveh, so he ran away and boarded a ship. God then raised a great storm as a sign of his anger with Jonah. The sailors, realizing that Jonah's disobedience had caused the storm, threw him overboard in an attempt to save their ship. God sent a whale to swallow Jonah and he lived for three days and three nights in the belly of the whale. Jonah was so grateful to God that he had saved him that he promised to do whatever God asked. God heard him and told the fish to spit Jonah out onto dry land. Then Jonah went to Ninenveh and preached to the people God’s message. The people believed the message and changed their ways and Nineveh was saved.
