Noah's Ark

by Tess Fries (Adapter)

This charming and colorful three-dimensional padded cloth toy is shaped like Noah's ark and filled with little stuffed-fabric animals. They come in pairs of two, exactly like they are in the bible story of Noah and the ark. Kids will find pairs of horses, giraffes, sheep, elephants, and others—12 miniature animals in all. There is also a stuffed-cloth Noah, who smiles over all the animals. A skylight flap opens on the ark's roof to show a picture of Noah's wife and children, and a door at the ark's stern unfolds, becoming a ramp on which the animals can board the ark. When kids want to take all the animals out of the ark they can lift the roof and open it from its Velcro tab. A delightful extra feature is an eight page illustrated cloth book (size 4 1/2" x 4 1/4") that tells the story of Noah and the flood in easy words. (Ages Infant–3)

Genres: Childrens

Hardcover

First published April 19, 2001

Reviews

[Andrew J · Rating 3 out of 5]

The artwork was very well illustrated, however, there were some inaccuracies within the story. For example, it is not biblical to state that Noah was a Dr. Doolittle, capable of speaking with the animals. Also, there is nothing in the Tanakh/Old Testament that tells us that Biblical characters were, in fact, cartoons. Despite the illustrations being very well done, I find it completely dangerous for authors and artists to try to deem how characters looked. I don't think that the frogs had eyes as big as can be found within these pages. Also, according to a Google search, umbrellas were not invented until 1852, so to imply that Noah had time travel capabilities is just ridiculous. There were also a bunch of black spots all over the copy I have, and I practically flung myself to the hand soap; and just for good measure, I pirouetted over to the hand sanitizer. All in all, a cute re-telling, but incredibly against Biblical teaching.

I'm totally kidding. It was cute.