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A story about a little girl named Elizabeth who is afraid to start a new school until her mother tells her the story about Esther in the Bible and how brave she was. Follow Elizabeth along in this story as she learns what it means to be brave.
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Charlotte Lundy grew up along the Gulf Coast in Mobile Alabama. It was there that she began to write poems and short stories at the age of eight.
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Charlotte has written five other stories in this series. Thank You, Noah-Thank You, Moses-Thank You, Mary-Thank You, Paul-Thank You, Solomon.
Charlotte has a Liberal Arts Degree and enjoys playing tennis, meeting people and being a Hospice Volunteer.
She has two grown children and lives in North Carolina with her husband Pat.
Grades 1-3--Unable to alleviate her daughter's fears about going to school, Elizabeth's mother tells her about someone else who had to be brave. That "young lady" was Queen Esther of the Bible, and the central part of this book is a condensed version of her story, stating that Mordecai merely "got into trouble with the high court. The king ordered that Mordecai and all of the Jews be killed." The pivotal role of the arch-villain Haman is simply summarized. Even worse is the distortion of the theme: Queen Esther risked her life to save her people from genocide, quite a different magnitude of courage from that needed by a child going to school. The writing is repetitive and stilted, reading like a first draft that was never revised or edited. The illustrations are as stiff and unnatural as the writing. Faces are often twisted into grimaces or blank smiles, Esther looks like a movie starlet, colors are lurid, and both line and perspective are exaggerated to no good effect. Virtually any other story about Queen Esther is preferable to this one.
Linda R. Silver, Jewish Education Center of Cleveland, OH
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Linda R. Silver, Jewish Education Center of Cleveland, OH
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherBay Light Pub
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0967028043
- ISBN 13 9780967028040
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorJames Margaret Ray
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Thank You, Esther (Thank You, God)
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