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Jonah and the Whale


No. of pages 32

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Great for age 3-9 years
A picture book which retells the story of the prophet Jonah, who tries to sail away when God calls him to deliver a message to the people of Nineveh, but his act of rebellion ends in his being swallowed up safely by a whale. Illustrated with colour paintings.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Geoffrey Patterson was formerly an interior designer and a set designer for the BBC. He is now an author/illustrator of children's books and was winner of the 1986 Smarties Prize.

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.

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