Nachshon, Who Was Afraid to Swim: A Passover Story PDF
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C o h Deborah Bodin Cohen e is the Rabbi for n / J Lifelong Education at Temple Emanuel in Cherry ag o Hill, NJ. She is the author of Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride, The Seventh Day, Papa For generations, Nachshon’s family Jethro and Lilith’s Ark, a National Jewish Book had been slaves to the Egyptian Pharaoh, Award winner. She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and and Nachshon feared that it would be his lives in Cherry Hill with her husband and children. destiny too. But when Moses appears and confronts the Pharaoh, he offers Jago Nachshon hope —hope of realizing his graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2003 with a degree in illustration. Jago has dream of freedom and overcoming his illustrated more than 19 books for publishers in fears. The story of the brave boy who the United States and United Kingdom. His first was the first to step into the sea will book, Fig’s Giant by Geraldine McCaughrean, inspire young and old alike. was adapted by the BBC for a television show. The Little Red Hen, winner of a National Literacy Association Award, was chosen for inclusion in Bookstart, a U.K. government initiative to provide free books for children. His children’s Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones won a Gold Moonbeam Award. Jago lives and works in North Cornwall, England, with his wife and daughter. Jacket illustration © 2009 by Lerner Publishing Group Deborah Bodin Cohen KAR-BEN PUBLISHING K a A division of Lerner Publishing Group r - 241 First Avenue North • Minneapolis, MN 55401 B Illustrations by Jago e 1-800-4KARBEN n Ages 3-7 Reinforced binding C o h Deborah Bodin Cohen e is the Rabbi for n / J Lifelong Education at Temple Emanuel in Cherry ag o Hill, NJ. She is the author of Engineer Ari and the Rosh Hashanah Ride, The Seventh Day, Papa For generations, Nachshon’s family Jethro and Lilith’s Ark, a National Jewish Book had been slaves to the Egyptian Pharaoh, Award winner. She was ordained at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and and Nachshon feared that it would be his lives in Cherry Hill with her husband and children. destiny too. But when Moses appears and confronts the Pharaoh, he offers Jago Nachshon hope —hope of realizing his graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2003 with a degree in illustration. Jago has dream of freedom and overcoming his illustrated more than 19 books for publishers in fears. The story of the brave boy who the United States and United Kingdom. His first was the first to step into the sea will book, Fig’s Giant by Geraldine McCaughrean, inspire young and old alike. was adapted by the BBC for a television show. The Little Red Hen, winner of a National Literacy Association Award, was chosen for inclusion in Bookstart, a U.K. government initiative to provide free books for children. His children’s Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones won a Gold Moonbeam Award. Jago lives and works in North Cornwall, England, with his wife and daughter. Jacket illustration © 2009 by Lerner Publishing Group Deborah Bodin Cohen KAR-BEN PUBLISHING K a A division of Lerner Publishing Group r - 241 First Avenue North • Minneapolis, MN 55401 B Illustrations by Jago e 1-800-4KARBEN n Ages 3-7 Reinforced binding For my mother, Carol Bodin, who taught me to swim—D.B.C. For my lovely wife, Alex, and the marvelous Lily Peach—J. Pronunciation: The “ch” in Nachshon is pronounced like the “ch” in Bach. Text copyright © 2009 by Deborah Bodin Cohen Illustrations copyright © 2009 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise— without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. KAR-BEN PUBLISHING INC. A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 1-800-4KARBEN Website address: www.karben.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cohen, Deborah Bodin, 1968— Nachshon who was afraid to swim: a passover story/by Deborah Bodin Cohen: illustrated by Jago p. cm. Summary: When the Israelites flee Egypt, Nachshon exhibits great courage by being the first to step into the Red Sea, even though he cannot swim. ISBN 978–0–8225–8764–4 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) [1. Slavery— Fiction. 2. Courage—Fiction. 3. Fear—Fiction. 4. Bible stories—O.T. Exodus—Fiction.] I. Jago, ill. II Title. PZ7. c6623Nac 2009 [E]—dc22 20070428359 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 – DP – 14 13 12 11 10 09 eISBN-13: 978-0-7613-5192-4 By Deborah Bodin Cohen Illustrations by Jago In the days when Pharaoh ruled and the pyramids cast their shadows over Egypt, there lived an Israelite slave named Nachshon. Nachshon’s parents, grandparents, and even his great-great-grandparents had lived as slaves. But Nachshon knew that long ago his family had been free, and he dreamed of freedom every night. 4 5 6 From dawn to dusk , under the midday rays of the desert sun, Nachshon’s father and brothers labored in the quarries mixing straw and mud into bricks. Nachshon slipped past the taskmasters and smuggled in cool drinking water for them. Neither the Egyptian taskmasters nor Pharaoh himself scared the young boy. His family began calling him “Brave Nachshon.” 7 8
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