Clubhouse Stories: Parallel Parables for 11-14 Year Olds

by Francis Blake (Illustrator), Anna Jean (Author), Francis Blake (Illustrator)

• Used

  Illustrated
  1999

  $3.30

  This fresh approach to the parables aims to relate to young teens through situations familiar to their daily lives. Using a group of school friends as the point of contact with the reader, each parable is paralleled section by section with a contemporary story which helps to bring out the teaching of the parable itself. The author has used her abilities as a storyteller to bring the Bible story to life alongside the contemporary parable. The result is a resource which could be used in a teaching situation in the classroom or church as well as read by the individual. The first story has been enacted as a shory play as part of Keystage Three Literacy Hour work. The book forms a complete story whilst paralleling four parables: the lost sheep, the two sons, the precious pearl, and the Pharisee and the tax collector.