God's People - Softcover

McCaughrean, Geraldine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1858816203 ISBN 13: 9781858816203

Publisher: Orion Children's Books, 1998

Synopsis

From an award winning author, a major new presentation of Old Testament stories. Geraldine McCaughrean is the Great storyteller of our times, renowned for her spirited retellings of classic stories. Here she brings us 32 Old Testament stories, among them Genesis, Cain & Abel, Noah and the Flood, and Samson and Delilah. Her colourful, accessible text is accompanied by favourite and familiar quotations from the King James version of the bible. The text is enhanced by the warmth and humanity of Anna C.Leplar's illustrations, which paint a vivid picture of life in biblical times.

About this title

About the Author:

Geraldine McCaughrean has written over 140 books and plays for both adults and children, including Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to J M Barrie's Peter Pan, which was one of the most talked about and successful children's titles of 2006. Geraldine McCaughrean has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book Award (three times), the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award (four times), the Blue Peter Book of the Year award and the Blue Peter Special Book to Keep Forever award. Geraldine is the first author to have been short listed, by librarians, for the Carnegie Medal six times, on at least one occasion in each of the past four decades, thus once again recognising the quality of her writing over the years.

Geraldine McCaughrean's novels and retellings for children have won her the CARNEGIE MEDAL, GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION AWARD, WHITBREAD AWARD and THE BEEFEATER AWARD. A prolific author who writes for all ages, she lives in Berkshire with her family.
Visit her website at www.geraldinemccaughrean.co.uk

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Children's Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1858816203
• ISBN 13: 9781858816203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Leplar Anna Cynthia