In this handsome companion volume to Stories from the Life of Jesus, Celia Barker Lottridge brings her gifts as an award-winning storyteller to the Jewish Bible. These texts are essential for the reading of books, for looking at the art, and for listening to the music from the past two millennia ? and long before. Today, when religion is both omnipresent and strangely absent from childrens lives, this version of the Jewish Bible is presented to readers as a narrative of interest both for the compelling quality of the stories it tells as well as for the deep, resonant role it has played in Western culture. It aims to give children a greater understanding of their own cultural inheritance.Award-winning illustrator Gary Clement has been deeply familiar with the Bible stories since childhood. He is a sophisticated artist whose acquaintance with the iconographic roots of the stories has allowed him to situate the illustrations in historical tradition while bringing a freshness and vitality to them.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 7 years.

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published in 2004 by Groundwood Books Ltd , Canada .

Celia Barker Lottridge was born in Iowa. When she was a child her family moved often, from the prairies to the west coast, then to the east coast and finally back to the prairies. In 1975 she moved to Toronto where she worked in the Children's Book Store and began to write books for children. She also became a very active storyteller, performing in schools, libraries and theaters. Gary Clement is an award-winning author and illustrator. He has won the Governor General's Award for The Great Poochini . He is the editorial cartoonist for the National Post , and his work has appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal .