Naamah, Noah's Wife
PreS-K. The tasks assigned to Noah are generally well known, but we don't hear much about the role Naamah, Noah's wife, played in rescuing humanity from the flood. Young children will learn what she did from this attractive board-book version of Sasso'sNoah's Wife: The Story of Naamah(2002). From impressionistically depicted gardens Naamah retrieves two of every kind of seed and takes them on the ark, where she tends them in planters. After the floodwaters recede, she disperses some of her charges to the wind; others she plants in the ground, regenerating the lost vegetation. Andersen's colorful, uncluttered pictures, together with Sasso's spare text, shape the biblical story into a series of simple, purposeful actions to make a tale that can be enjoyed by children of many denominations.Ellen MandelCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved