This jolly, interactive board book features indented patterns and trails on every page for children to follow with their finger as they read the story. In Jonah's Incredible Journey children can trace Jonah's hurried footprints as he runs away, the tossing of the boat over the bumpy waves, the whale's big gulp as he swallows Jonah - and Jonah's big exit afterwards! - and Jonah's footsteps as he completes his journey towards Nineveh. By enabling children to interact with the story in a tactile way, the storyline becomes more concrete and engaging, and adds a fun touch to storytimes for early learners. Publishes along with All Aboard the Ark.
This book is part of a book series called Finger-Trail Tales .
This book has been graded for interest at 3-5 years.
There are 10 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 2012 by SPCK Publishing .
Elena Pasquali is the pseudonym of an in-house author. Barbara Vagnozzi lives in Italy. She has illustrated for Child's Play as well as the Finger-Trail Tales and God Bless Me for Lion. Sophie Piper is the pseudonym of an in-house author. Barbara Vagnozzi lives in Italy. She has illustrated for Child's Play as well as the Finger-Trail Tales and God Bless Me for Lion.
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.
`This book delivers the story beautifully for young children' `It is a novel idea to keep interest and is well done' -- Catholic Life
