Joseph

By Katheryn Maddox Haddad

85 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 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781948462532

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 ~ Joseph Is Born

Joseph’s great-grandfather was Abraham. His grandfather was Isaac. His father was Jacob.

When Joseph was born, his father had been in the land of Haran for 20 years.  It was time to return to the land God had promised to Abraham, Isaac and his father, the land where Jacob had been born.

After the family got back to his father’s homeland, God changed his father’s name from Jacob to Isra-el.  So now, Jacob had 2 names, but he wanted everyone to call him by his new name.  Jacob’s grandmother’s name was Sara which means princess.  Jacob was named Isra-el which means Prince of God.

Later on, when Joseph was old enough to under-stand his father’s new name, he was proud that he was the son of a prince.

Finally, Joseph’s father with the new name—Isra-el—settled down. And guess who he settled near?  Joseph’s grandfather, Isaac.

Joseph always enjoyed visiting with Grandfather Isaac.  His grandfather was blind, but Joseph didn’t care. The old man was happy.  Joseph thought it was funny that Grandfather Isaac’s name meant laughter because he did laugh a lot.

Joseph’s mother was Rachel. She was very beautiful.  When Joseph was 12 years old she gave him a little brother who his father named Ben-ja-min. Ben-ja-min was born near a city named Beth-le-hem.

Joseph now had lots of brothers—11 in all.  They were all older than him except Ben-ja-min. Everyone used to call Joseph the baby of the family. But he wasn’t the baby of the family anymore. Ben-ja-min was.

Joseph enjoyed playing with Ben-ja-min, though he wished Ben-ja-min would grow more so they could play catch ball together.

Isra-el, Joseph’s father, often said Joseph was a lot like their great-great-grandfather, Noah.  Abraham had known Noah personally, and a lot of people didn’t like him because he was always trying to obey God.

Oh, yes.  Young Joseph was like Noah all right. He always tried to obey his father, even when his older brothers did not want to. So, his older brothers