The Lion Storyteller Book of Parables
By Bob Hartman and Krisztina Kallai Nagy
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About this ebook
The Lion Storyteller Book of Parables is a beautifully illustrated eBook, featuring 15 of Jesus' parables. Perfect for bedtime reading with young children, or to read aloud in assemblies or children's ministry.
Explore many of Jesus' best-known parables - like the Kind Stranger, the Lost Coin, and the Wise and Foolish Builders - with stories collected from the Lion Storyteller Bible as well as brand new re-tellings.
Written in Bob Hartman's clear and accessible style, the stories are given a lively and engaging twist, allowing children to hear and understand the profound words of Jesus. It's ideal for primary school-aged children.
The Lion Storyteller Book of Parables features warm and inviting illustrations by Hungarian artist Krisztina Kallai Nagy.
This book would also be great for children who are beginning to read independently.
Bob Hartman is the author of many Bible books for children and an authority on stories and storytelling. His interactive storytelling performances have been entertaining audiences around the world for over 15 years.
Bob Hartman
Bob Hartman is a professional storyteller and award-winning children’s author of over seventy books. He was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but now lives in Wiltshire. He has been entertaining audiences on both sides of the Atlantic for over 30years with his books and performances, which bring together retellings of Bible stories and traditional tales from around the world with his own imaginative stories. His books are full of humour and insight, whilst his storytelling sessions are exciting, engaging, dynamic – and above all, interactive! The Lion Storyteller Bible is used in schools across the United Kingdom as part of a Bible project called Open the Book, and is regularly performed for over 800,000 children in more than 3,000 primary schools. He is well known for his hugely popular The Lion Storyteller collection, the Telling the Bible series, and the highly acclaimed picture books: The Wolf Who Cried Boy, Dinner in the Lions’ Den and The Three Billy Goats’ Stuff.
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The Lion Storyteller Book of Parables - Bob Hartman
Introduction
Jesus told stories.
That’s what people tell me – children and adults alike – whenever I am telling Bible stories. And they’re right. Jesus did tell stories. But they were, by and large, a very special kind of story. They were what we call parables
.
So what is a parable? It’s a simple story that is told to teach a lesson. It’s usually about a situation that’s familiar to its listeners. And, certainly in the parables Jesus told, that familiar thing is often compared with some truth about God’s kingdom.
So Jesus will say, The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure in a field,
or The kingdom of heaven is like a man who did such and such a thing.
And then the listener is invited to make the comparison and work out the meaning of the parable.
Sometimes, as in the case of the Parable of the Sower
, Jesus provides the meaning. And, sometimes, the Gospel writers – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – give a bit of a hint in their introduction: Jesus told this story because…
But often there is no clue at all. We, like the people who first heard these stories, are left to work out the meaning for ourselves. Or perhaps, better still, with God’s help. He who has ears to hear,
said Jesus. And I think he was suggesting that those ears
were God’s gift to his people. Tune in with him, and you’ll get it
!
I hope that the children with whom you share these parable retellings will enjoy them. (There are plenty of opportunities for them to join in too, and I’ve included suggestions for that in the back of the book.) And I hope that I have told the parables in such a way that listeners of any age will understand that these simple stories are really about more than buying pearls and looking for sheep and watching out for thieves. What I can’t do for them is to ensure that they get
that deeper other meaning. I can only tell the stories, best as I can, and pray that with your help, and God’s help, the listeners will both hear and understand.
The Sower
Jesus went to Lake Galilee. But he didn’t go to swim or to catch fish. He went there to tell people about God and his kingdom.
When he sat down to teach – because that’s what teachers did in those days – a huge crowd gathered around. The crowd was so huge that they couldn’t all possibly see him, much less hear him.
So Jesus borrowed a boat and pushed off a little way from shore. And when the people could see and when the people could hear, he told them a story: a particular kind of story we call a parable, a story with a special hidden meaning, a story that went something like this:
"A farmer went out to sow some seed. He threw it on the ground. He threw it here. He threw it there. He threw it everywhere!
Some of the seeds that the farmer threw fell on the hard, foot-worn path. And straightaway greedy birds swooped down out of the sky and gobbled them up.
Some of the seeds that the farmer threw fell on rocky ground, where the soil was very shallow. The plants sprang up quickly. But because the soil was shallow, their roots did not sink deep. And when the sun came up, it scorched the plants, and they withered and died.
Some of the other seeds that the farmer threw fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and