Each attractive book retells one complete episode from the Bible in 20 pages. The easy-to-read text is complemented by spacious, detailed pictures. A final page of background information helps parents and teachers set the story in the context of the whole Bible. The Bible reference is included in every book. The original series had 52 books; the new series picks out the top 24: 10 stories from the New Testament and 14 from the Old Testament. Together, they give an excellent representative coverage of the whole Bible narrative. The series has a bright new look. Sales of previous editions exceed 10 million copies.
This book is part of a book series called The Lion Story Bible .
There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Lion Hudson Plc .
Penny Frank and Tony Morris are well known for their collaboration on the Lion Story Bible series - a series of inexpensive 24 page readers, each of which takes a separate Bible story from either the Old or New Testament. Tony Morris illustrated Lion Children's Books' successful Lion Story Bible series. His other work includes the What's Their Story? series for Oxford University Press, and Hodder Children's Books' Historical Storybooks series.
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 didnt 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 Gods message. The people believed the message and changed their ways and Nineveh was saved.
This book features the following character:
Jonah
