Author: Nathaniel Ormsby

ISBN 1-41204676

Specs:  8x10 paperback, 24 pages.  4- color illustrations

Publisher: Trafford Publishing 

In this exciting true story of the beautiful Queen Esther, children are shown the complexities brought on by threats to one’s faith.

This exciting story of life-and-death intrigue is brought to life for young readers through a modernized  text. The text and abundant full-color illustrations make clear the courage and endurance of Queen Esther and her people who endured great trials in ancient Persia, which at that time ran from India to Ethiopia.

Queen Esther, shows the complexities of life for a people who defended their belief in The One True God among foreign belief systems.  Four hundred years before Jesus, about the time the walls of Jerusalem were being built and the Hebrew scribe Ezra was on his way to Jerusalem to restore the laws of Moses, the Jews in Persia suffered persecutions.

Esther, a young Jewish woman of astounding beauty, enjoys great wealth and power as the wife of the handsome and powerful Persian ruler, King Xerxes.  She risks it all (including her own life, by revealing her faith) to save her people from Haman, the wicked adviser to the king. They are saved from extinction by Esther’s cunning and courage and Mordecia’s bravery.

Each of these ancient people come alive in the abundant full-color illustrations.  They take on personality and character, and children find themselves identifying with the terrible choices required of these true believers.

The drama becomes real as they hiss at the villain and cheer for the good guys – and in the process, they get practice at dealing with life’s hard questions and learn how faith and devotion to God can save the day.

Highly recommended for entertaining and painless early moral training.