Noah's Brother

by Dick King-Smith

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Animals

Paperback

First published July 5, 1988

About the author

Dick King-Smith was born and raised in Gloucestershire, England, surrounded by pet animals. After twenty years as a farmer, he turned to teaching and then to writing children's books.

Dick writes mostly about animals: farmyard fantasy, as he likes to call it, often about pigs, his special favorites. He enjoys writing for children, meeting the children who read his books, and knowing that they get enjoyment from what he does.

Among his well-loved books is Babe, The Gallant Pig, which was recently made into a major motion picture, and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Dick lived with his wife in a small 17th-century cottage, about three miles from the house where he was born.

Reviews

[Abigail · Rating 3 out of 5]

Contains one of my favourite jokes about a biblical mountain in literature

[Amy Barrett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Noah’s Brother By Dick King-Smith.
Noah’s Brother is the untold story of Noah older brother Hazardikladoram, known as Yessah by his nephews as they always hear his say yes to anything that was asked of him. Yessah help build the ark and collect the animals, he was almost forgotten about when the rains came but due to his relationship with the animals was saved and looked after by them for the whole 40 days and 40 nights.
This is a twist to the commonly known story, with Noah and his family seen to be rude and nasty it could upset a child who loves the traditional story. It is a great story to show respected and responsibility. It could also be used within a religious lesson to show the differences and similarly as Yessah has Hindu mannerisms. It was a slightly dull read, lacking in drama and but this could be down the events have been told many, many times before. I think an able reader may find it unchallenging. I think the book is aimed at around seven years olds.

[Jonatan Almfjord · Rating 2 out of 5]

En märklig religiös barnbok. Den utgår tydligt från berättelsen om syndafloden som beskrivs i bibelns Första Mosebok. Men den avviker lika tydligt från samma berättelse för att göra en typ av svårplacerat sociopolitiskt utspel. Min försiktiga gissning är att detta är en bok skriven för målgrupen kristna barn, med avsikt att väcka kritiska tankar om den typ av religiositet som präglas av bokstavstroende - att tro på varje påstående, varje ord som står i en helig skrift. Jag kan såklart ha fel, men för mig blir detta den enda aspekt som kan förklarar varför boken är som den är. Att jag inte ger den särskilt högt betyg handlar dock inte om det, jag tycker helt enkelt inte att berättelsen håller måttet. Det finns bättre barnböcker.

[Matilda Ka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute short story about a kind man nobody wanted.

[Jax Goss · Rating 4 out of 5]

Charming little tale about the unsung story of Noah's brother. I love reading my child gently subversive books. ;)

[CaroleHeidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yet another funny and charming story from DKS - an alternative version of the Noah's Ark story that made Tori and I giggle throughout.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

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