Jonah's Trash...God's Treasure (Mr. Grungy's Junkyard Bible Stories) - Hardcover

Anderson, Joel; Goolsby, Abe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0849958253 ISBN 13: 9780849958250

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1998

Synopsis

The most creative telling of the story of Jonah that you've ever seen. This new picture book by award winning designer Joel Anderson and Illustrator Abe Goolsby features a creative art style using "Jonah's Trash" to illustrate the story focusing on "God's Treasure". Provides hours of fun, riddle solving and seek-and-find. Full color through-out.

About this title

About the Author:

Joel Anderson written and illustrated six children's books, including Jonah's Trash...God's Treasure and David and the Trash Talking Giant. He is the co-founder of Anderson Thomas Design, Inc., a nationally recognized graphic design firm that specializes in children's product development. Joel is married with four children.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 2-Extremely busy yet entertaining double-page illustrations are the outstanding feature of this rhymed story of Jonah. Constructed from all sorts of found objects such as pretzels, pipe cleaners, electrical cords, dried peas, and much, much more, the collages are eye-catching. Children will have fun identifying the multiplicity of components and admiring how they are used to create the pictures. Each scene also has a "trash and treasure hunt" puzzle with instructions for locating various things in the picture. Although the versification of the text lacks fluidity, the poem is adequate and neatly tells how Jonah, hating Ninevites, tries to shirk God's assignment to warn them to mend their ways. He takes a ship sailing in the opposite direction. As the boat, a wonderful construction of tongue depressors, bottle caps, and such, sets out, a storm begins to rage. Knowing that God is angry with him, Jonah insists on being cast overboard into a sea of crinkled blue plastic wrap and from thence into the great fish's flotsam-filled belly. Spat out on the shore of Nineveh, he does his job and learns reluctantly that the people he considers trash are God's treasures. Not a first purchase, but clever.
Patricia Pearl Dole, formerly at First Presbyterian School, Martinsville, VA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0849958253
• ISBN 13: 9780849958250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 28