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A 'Seussical' look at a classic Bible story Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 29 October 2009 02:33 PM America/New_York
Though the account of Noah's ark has been presented time and again in numerous styles and formats, Master Books believes it has a fresh perspective on the familiar subject in Noah's Floating Animal Park, released this month.

Author Janine Suter, who refers to her writing as "Dr. Seuss meets Henry Morris," said she was pleased to be able to share foundational truths in a new way. "I really wrote ... to show that it could be done. ... God's truth can be presented in a popular ‘storybook' style without being untrue to the text," she said.

The book is one of three in an apologetics series by Suter with Master Books--an imprint of New Leaf Publishing Group--this fall. Its companion titles are The Not-So Super Skyscraper and The Day the World Went Wacky, which tell of the Tower of Babel and the Garden of Eden, respectively.

New Leaf President Tim Dudley said that in considering new titles, one of the first questions for a publisher must be, "Can we find a market for this material, especially if it is a topic that has been dealt with before?"

Read more in the Nov. 9 issue of Christian Retailing magazine.