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PAUL HEINS

[The Journey with Jonah, a dramatization of the story found in the Old Testament Book of Jonah,] amplifies the humor of the original and retains its basic meaning. Jonah, the somewhat pompous prophet, may be at odds with God and man, but he is not left alone. On every step of his way he is confronted by animal creation. His motives are probed by a pedantic Owl, a silly Goose, and a pert Jay—among others; the Rat family witness his ejection from the ship; and he engages in a conversation with the Whale. Through the prose and the verse, the rhymes and the puns, is witnessed the animal world's revelation of the incomprehensibility of God's mercy, which Jonah finally acknowledges. (p. 184)

Paul Heins, in The Horn Book Magazine (copyright © 1968 by The Horn Book, Inc., Boston), April, 1968.

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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
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