The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Spier, Peter

The Book of Jonah

40 pp. | Doubleday | January, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-385-37909-0 $17.99
New ed. (1985)

(2) K-3 Spier's fertile imagination and eye for humor puts the familiar Old Testament story in a context of busy, bustling everyday life. The adaptation is admirably simple and clear; the profusion of lively, detailed, and color-filled illustrations--which skillfully compress scenes of teeming crowds and cities into small pictorial gems--will be a source of delight. An appendix features diagrams, maps, and biblical and (updated) historical notes.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1986