The Book of Jonah - Softcover

Spier, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340387262 ISBN 13: 9780340387269

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Religious Division, 1986

Synopsis

Retells the Biblical story of the man who spent three days and three nights in the belly of a great fish. Includes historical material on Jonah's world.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Spier is one of America's best-known children's book illustrators whose books have won numerous awards. He has written over a dozen books and illustrated more than one hundred others.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3 Unlike his Noah's Ark (Doubleday, 1977), Spier has included the text from the Bible along with his usual delightful illustrations. Noah's humanity is fully exposedhis fear, obedience, anger and acceptance. Each picture is a story in itself, busy, colorful and page-filling, but never intruding on the text. The glossy paper stock of the book makes the pictures more colorful and alive than they are in Noah's Ark . Some who accept the Bible literally may be bothered by Spier's statement that Nineveh was three days journey from where the fish vomited out Jonahboth the King James and the New American versions indicate instead that Nineveh was so large that it took three days to cross. The Book of Jonah is an excellent lap or read-to book, and will be of some interest to older middle-schoolers. Valuable historical material dealing with Nineveh, Joppa and Tarshish in Noah's time, including archaeological maps and findings and diagrams of the Phoenician ships of the day, is located on the back endpapers. Unfortunately the jacket flap covers some of this information. Despite its shortcomings, The Book of Jonah is a delightful addition to the collection, and libraries will want to own at least one copy. Warwick Hutton's illustrations in Jonah and the Great Fish (Atheneum, 1984) are more human and appealing, but the book ends with Jonah being spit out of the fish's mouth and does not have the historical information that Spier's version has. Nancy Schmidtmann, Our Lady of Mercy School Library, Hicksville, N.Y.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Religious Division
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0340387262
• ISBN 13: 9780340387269
• Binding: Paperback