Picks and Pans Review: Bible Stories from the New Testament

UPDATED 04/16/1990 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 04/16/1990 at 01:00 AM EDT

Retold by Margaret Hopkins
Illustrated by Katherine Dietz Coville

Coville's extraordinary pastel illustrations lend this volume an ethereal elegance and grace. Hopkins's writing has a mythic quality that makes for wonderful bedtime reading. (Grosset & Dunlap, $12.95)