A number of our projects have sort of met at the intersection, and so over the last few weeks I have had a lot to announce. We are very grateful to God. The latest announcement, and one that we are really excited about, is a series of Bible stories for young children. They are published by Canon Press, and you can get them here and here. Nate Wilson has written the stories, and they are illustrated by Peter Bentley.
The first two are now out, and a third (on Abraham) is in the works. The first is entitled The Dragon and the Garden and is about Eden, and the second is called In the Time of Noah. Lord willing, this will be a series that takes young readers through familiar Bible stories, but they do so in a way that tells them as actual stories — stories that have not been run through the modernity filter. This is kind of hard to explain in detail, but the stories have the “feel” of ancient adventure stories, and at times of fairy stories. And before anyone reacts, this is what I meant when I referred to the modernity filter. What on earth makes us use fairy tale and falsehood as interchangeable synonymns?
These are brilliantly written for young readers, the reactions we have been getting from kids here can only be described as enthralled.
Here are a couple teasers.