The greatest story ever told? Find out for yourself as Murray Watts retells the key stories of the Bible. Everything is here, from greed, deception and hate, to love, miracles and redemption. Above all, the Bible is a love story: the moving tale of God's love for the world in all its wonder and brokenness. Murray Watts combines his knowledge and love of the Bible with skilful storytelling to introduce readers to the drama and mystery of this great book. His evocative and engaging retellings unfold the sweep of Bible history in words and phrases everyone can understand and enjoy. As well as gripping accounts of all the great stories, there are accessible paraphrases of a number of popular psalms and Old Testament words of wisdom and prophecy.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 10-18 years.

There are 400 pages in this book. This book was published in 2006 by SPCK Publishing .

Murray Watts is an experienced writer for stage, radio, television, film and animation. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the novel, Miracle Maker, and was scriptwriter for the highly acclaimed film of the same name. Helen Cann has been working as an illustrator for a number of years, increasingly specializing in children's books. For Lion she has illustrated Who Laid the Cornerstone of the World and A Child's Book of Celtic Prayers and Baboushka.