Hard Cover: 186 Pages

Retells thirteen Old Testament stories, including "The Creation," "Joseph and His Brothers," "King Solomon's Judgement," and "Jonah and the Great Fish."

An outstanding new edition of the Bible, with stunning illustrations on every page.

In this magnificently illustrated edition all the best-loved stories of the Bible are retold for young readers by Selina Hastings. Her fluent, lively style reflects the character and poetry of the original Bible, while vivid and finely detailed illustrations by Eric Thomas and Amy Burch bring to life the people and places referred to in the stories.

To help explain the stories and set them in their historical and geographical context, background information is included, together with color photographs and maps of places mentioned in the Bible. The combination of color photographs and illustrations gives children an exciting and completely new visual approach to the Bible.

The Illustrated Jewish Bible for Children has been carefully prepared with a panel of religious consultants, historians, educators, and scholars. Its unique qualities — clear text, beautiful illustrations, and stunning photographs — make this illustrated Bible a continual source of inspiration and pleasure for the whole family.

SELINA HASTINGS is a writer and journalist, the author of four literary biographies.  A lifelong Londoner, Selina was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and Oxford University.  Her first job was at Hatchard’s bookshop, after which she worked for fourteen years on the Daily Telegraph and for eight years was literary editor of Harper's & Queen.  A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she reviews regularly and has been a judge of the Booker, Whitbread, British Academy, Ondaatje and Duff Cooper Prizes, and of the UK Biographers’ Award.

Selina was Lecturer at the Heinz Foundation Conversazione at Lake Como in 1999, Visiting Scholar at the Hawthornden Foundation in 1992 & 2000, Invitée d’Honneur, Colloque Internationale de l’Université Paris VII in 2001.  At the Harry Ransom Research Center, University of Texas, she was Mellon Fellow during 2002-3 and in 2009-2010 was awarded the Dorot Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Jewish Studies.  From 2008-2009 she was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary’s University, London.

Selina has written biographies of Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh (winner of the Marsh Biography Prize), Rosamond Lehmann and Somerset Maugham.  She has also written a number of books for children, including a complete retelling of the Bible.

RABBI JOSEPH POTASNIK is presently the Executive Vice President (and former President) of the New York Board of Rabbis, the largest international body of its kind in the world and also serves as Senior Rabbi at Congregation Mt. Sinai in Brooklyn Heights.

He co-hosts WABC's Talk Radio "Religion on the Line" every Sunday morning and is the religious commentator for 1010 WINS Radio. He also hosts the award winning weekly television series "Faith to Faith" and has authored numerous articles, including the forward to "The Illustrated Jewish Bible for Children."

Rabbi Potasnik was appointed to the NYC Campaign Finance Board for two terms. He served as Chaplain of the FDNY and the Fraternal Order of Police, assisting many families cope with 9/11; and was recently appointed Chaplain of the NY Press Club.

Rabbi Potasnik received a B.A. from Yeshiva College, an M.S. from the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University, and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.