The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Wildsmith, Brian

Exodus

34 pp. | Eerdmans | January, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-8028-5175-4 $$20.00

(3) K-3 Wildsmith retells the Exodus story, from the birth of Moses to the arrival of the Hebrew people in the Promised Land. The storytelling is formal but understandable to a young reader. The illustrations are dramatic, and each page is bordered in gold, with God depicted as a prismatic star. Rather than emphasizing individual characters, the focus is on the sweeping landscapes and the crowds of Hebrews leaving Egypt.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth