The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Hodges, Margaret, Adapter

The Legend of Saint Christopher

32 pp. | Eerdmans | September, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8028-5077-4 $$18.00

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Richard Jesse Watson. A strong man named Offero hopes to serve the mightiest lord of all. His search leads him from a king to the devil to Jesus Christ, resembling a small boy, whom Offero carries across a torrential river. Hodges does an admirable job retelling the thirteenth-century legend, and Watson's illustrations convey the magnitude of the story, although there's little visual or emotional connection from painting to painting.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth