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How do we tell children the story of Jesus' death and resurrection -- events that make up the best-known week in earth's history? We could use lots of drama and pathos or tell it as one of the principal characters or as an uninvolved bystander or as an animal on the scene. There are many ways to convey the principal events and suggest their meaning.
In The Easter Story, Stephanie Jeffs writes as a storyteller, using narrative and dialogue in a straightforward and reverent, but not overly sentimental, tone. She recounts the story in 12 episodes to children as though they had never heard it before. In fact they may not have heard it before.
John Haysom's watercolor illustrations are wonderful. He uses a wide variety of scenes from the happy entry into Jerusalem to the warm golden light in the upper room (the same light is seen when Jesus appears to the disciples after his resurrection) to the dark moonlit night scene in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Telling this story of death and resurrection to children has been a problem for many parents -- Christians and others. Jeffs and Haysom have given them a beautiful way to share Easter.
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