As you can imagine, the Book Selection Committee reviews hundreds upon hundreds of books and manuscripts each year. Surprisingly, very few of them are Biblical stories. Fewer still, are Biblical stories depicted in an accessible and engrossing manner. But every so often such a book comes our way and we pounce on it. After all, the best stories are often the original ones.
Faithfully told in a dramatic voice,
EXODUS begins with Moses’s mother placing her baby in a basket of reeds and hiding him among the bulrushes, and ends with Joshua leading the Hebrew people into the Promised Land.
The vivid, panoramic illustrations of ancient Egypt, the exodus, and Mount Sinai are highly detailed, and when we selected the book, we envisioned PJ Library subscribers pouring over them. Each page is framed by gold borders and gold foil adorns the cover and the star-like shape representing God (the golden calf, however, is not gold); this and the over-sized trim make the book handsome and striking, one to keep in your library to be read again and again in the years to come.
March 3, 2016