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Stories from Adam and Eve to Ezekiel: Retold from the Bible
Contributor(s): Lottridge, Celia Barker (Retold by), Clement, Gary (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0888994907     ISBN-13: 9780888994905
Publisher: Groundwood Books
OUR PRICE:   $22.46  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: September 2004
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Annotation: 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 from the Old Testament are essential for reading the books, for looking at the art, and for listening to the music from the past two millennia - and long before. Lottridge's striking prose highlights the drama of such stories as Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, Samson in the lion's den, the famed exodus from Egypt, Lot and his wife who turned to stone, and more. At a time when religion is both omnipresent and absent from children's lives, this version of the Jewish Bible is presented to young readers as a narrative of interest both for the compelling quality of the stories it tells and for the deep, resonant role it has played in Western culture. Acclaimed illustrator Gary Clement interprets these tales with respect and vitality.
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Religion - Bible Stories - General
Dewey: 220.950
Physical Information: 1" H x 7.12" W x 10.34" (1.89 lbs) 144 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 88022
Reading Level: 5.7   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
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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 children's 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.