The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Sobel, Ileene Smith

Moses and the Angels

64 pp. | Delacorte | February, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-385-32612-2 $$16.95

(3) 4-6 Illustrated by Mark Podwal. Sobel tells ten stories about the biblical leader, Moses, who survives his life of trials because of the intervention of angels. The mystical stories, set in a world where the boundaries between Heaven and Earth are vague, are told in an unadorned style, beautifully balanced with Podwal's spare paintings. A note about how closely these stories resemble the legends listed as sources would have been helpful.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth