Jonah

By Katheryn Maddox Haddad

92 pages written in easy-to-read large 16-point font for the early reader. Stories can be understood by four-year-olds and up. 
*At the end of each chapter is "Think & Do" to help the child apply the story to their own life.
*Popular among grandparents & parents, and excellent for homeschoolers. 
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• Language: English
• Publisher: MARK WARNICK
• Release date: Nov 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781948462570

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

Katheryn Maddox Haddad spends an average of 300 hours researching before she writes a book-ancient historians such as Josephus, archaeological digs so she can know the layout of cities, their language culture and politics. She grew up in the northern United States and now lives in Arizona where she doesn't have to shovel sunshine. She basks in 100-degree weather, palm trees, cacti, and a computer with most of the letters worn off. With a bachelor's degree in English, Bible and social science from Harding University and part of a master's degree in Bible, including Greek, from the Harding Graduate School of Theology, she also has a master's degree in management and human relations from Abilene University. She is author of forty-eight books, both non-fiction and fiction. Her newspaper column appeared for several years in newspapers in Texas and North Carolina ~ Little Known Facts About the Bible ~ and she has written for numerous Christian publications. For several years, she has been sending out every morning a daily scripture and short inspirational thought to some 30,000 people around the world. She spends half her day writing, and the other half teaching English over the internet worldwide using the Bible as textbook. She has taught over 6000 Muslims through World English Institute. Students she has converted to Christianity are in hiding in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Palestine. "They are my heroes," she declares.

Book preview

1 ~ Adviser to a King

Jonah packed an extra robe and some food in a basket. He put the basket on his back for the trip from his home in Gath Hepher.

The Kingdom of the Isra-el-ites split after Solomon’s death. The northern half of the kingdom had its own palace and temple and king in the city of Samaria, not Jerusalem. 

The 35-mile walk to the palace at Samaria would take him 2 or 3 days. He didn’t need a tent to sleep under on the road. He thought people who slept in tents while traveling needed to toughen up and quit being crybabies.

Now, well on his way, Jonah walked past the hill on which the village of Naz-a-reth was located and wondered why anyone would want to live there. 

Once he got to Nain in the foothills of Mount Tabor, he stopped and ate some cheese and olives and took another swig from his water skin.

The sun was still fairly bright, so he walked another hour and stopped.

I wonder what the king wants, he thought as he picked a place by a roadside well to stretch out and go to sleep.

He sure got in a mess when he became king of Isra-el. How long is the King of Syria going to make him pay tax money to him?

The minute Jonah laid his head down on his basket, using it as a pillow, he was asleep.

The next morning, he was jarred awake by a foot in his side.

Hey, get out of our way.  You do not own that well. Move!

Jonah got up, refilled his water skin, splashed some water on his face to help him finish waking up, and dug out some bread from his basket for his breakfast.

When Jonah arrived at the palace late that afternoon, he was taken to a special guest room for prophets and men of God.

He looked around and noticed a statue to a pretend god he did not know about. He picked it up and threw it at the wall where it broke.

He has to stop worshiping pretend gods!  The only true God will not always bless us.

2 hours later, Jonah was taken to the throne room.

I need your advice, Jonah,