Stories from the Bible (A Michael Neugebauer book) - Hardcover

Zwerger, Lisbeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0735814139 ISBN 13: 9780735814134

Publisher: North-South Books, 2002

Synopsis

Fourteen full-page illustrations and nearly sixty charming vignettes enhance an elegant collection of significant, New and Old Testament Bible stories taken from the King James version, ranging from the Creation story and Noah to the Birth of Christ, The Last Supper, and The Passion.

About this title

About the Author:

Heinz Janisch was born in Austria in 1960 in Gussing, Austria and studied German literature in Vienna. He has published numerous books, including many children's titles, which have been translated into more than twelve languages. He was nominated for the 2009 Lindgren Memorial Award and the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 2008, he received the Austrian Picture Book Award. Heinz Janisch lives with his family in Vienna and in Burgenland. Lisbeth Zwerger has been accorded nearly every prize that can be given, including the highest international award for lifetime achievement, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. Since 1981 she has devoted her extraordinary talents to children s literature, to stories as charming and picturesque as her native Vienna. Always surprising, always engaging, her artwork combines technical mastery with an insight and gentleness so rare and captivating that she has been correctly called one of the finest illustrators of the twentieth century."

Synopsis:

A handsome edition of well-known selected stories from both the Old and New Testaments in the King James traditional text. From the creation of the universe, Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, through Noah's Ark and David and Goliath, the stories are fascinatingly illustrated in Lisbeth Zwerger's inimitable style, and this book is altogether a wonderful way for children to learn a multitude of classic tales from the world's original storybook.

About this edition

• Publisher: North-South Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0735814139
• ISBN 13: 9780735814134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Zwerger Lisbeth