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GERALDINE E. LaROCQUE

The Journey with Jonah abounds with delightful puns and saucy animals that reflect their common characteristics such as the wise old owl and the foolish goose. I am inclined to say that everyone will love The Journey with Jonah because I am so taken with it and because I find it impossible not to pile orchid after orchid upon Newbery Prize winner L'Engle; but experience impels me to moderate that "everyone" in spite of myself.

So compelling is the play that students reading it may want to read the story of Jonah in the Bible. Because the subject matter is open to treatment in depth or to understanding on a literal level, I believe the play can be read anywhere from Grades 7 to 12. The animals may appeal to younger students, and their symbolic attributes will appeal to the more mature. The same is true of the style; its refinements can be appreciated by the better reader but its intent can be grasped by the less...

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1. Introduction
2. Mary Ross
3. Nina Brown Baker
4. Edward Weeks
5. Eunice Holsaert
6. Ellen Lewis Buell
7. Rose Feld
8. Trudie Osborne
9. Harrison Smith
10. Ruth Hill Viguers
11. Alice Dalgliesh
12. Ruth Hill Viguers
13. Carolyn M. Light
14. Alice Dalgliesh
15. Carolyn Horovitz
16. Elaine Moss
17. Jean C. Thomson
18. Paul Heins
19. GERALDINE E. LaROCQUE
20. GERALDINE E. LaROCQUE
21. John Conner
22. John W. Conner
23. Polly Longsworth
24. John W. Conner
25. MAY HILL ARBUTHNOT and ZENA SUTHERLAND
26. John Rowe Townsend
27. Robert Bell
28. Wayne Dodd
29. Barbara Elleman
30. Cynthia Benjamin
31. Craig Wallace Barrow
32. Rebecca J. Lukens
33. Jean F. Mercier
34. Karen M. Klockner
35. Copyright

1. Madeleine L'Engle