What did my kids think of Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat? There was a choose your own adventure story which took me back to my childhood! There was everything from a zoo in a classroom to a parrot that thought he was a chicken! My personal favourite was Dreamo Machino about a dream machine! This was such a cute book! I love these kids ones with short stories, perfect for bedtime! Together they have produced theJust! series, the wildly popular The Bad Book and The Very Bad Book, the ridiculous illustrated guide What Bumosaur is That?, and the Seussian-inspired early readers The Cat on the Mat is Flat and The Big Fat Cow that Goes Kapow! Their latest book is The 13-Storey Treehouse (September 2011). The book of the play was shortlisted in the children’s section of the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.Īndy has had a long-standing collaboration with the multi-talented illustrator Terry Denton. In July 2010 Just Macbeth!completed a return sold-out season at the Sydney Opera House before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it received rave reviews. In 2008 Andy and his wife Jill collaborated with The Bell Shakespeare Company on the popular and critically acclaimed theatrical production Just Macbeth! which was nominated for two Helpmann Awards. In 2008 Andy became the first Australian author to win six children’s choice awards in one year for Just Shocking!, smashing his previous record of 4 awards for The Bad Book in 2005.
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Over the past 15 years Andy’s books have been New York Times bestsellers, won over 50 children’s choice awards, been adapted as a television cartoon series and sold over 5 million copies worldwide.Īndy is best known as the author of the much-loved Just! series and The Day My Bum Went Psycho. He is the author of over 20 books, including nonsense verse, short stories, comic novels and plays. The Messiah is named Joshua in the book, as mentioned here.Andy Griffiths is Australia’s most popular children’s writer.
Reblogging because I’ve been reading Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. When another form of that name, ” יְהוֹשֻׁעַ”(Yeoshu’a) was allowed to Anglicize through a different set of corruptions, it entered the English Language through Reformist Protestants as the name “Joshua”. We get Jesus from the Latin form of the Greek “Ἰησοῦς”(Iēsous), which is derived from the Herbrew “ישוע”(Yeshu’a, which meant “YHWH is Salvaion”, YHWH, or Yahweh being the name of God). To expand on this, Jesus’s name is Anglicized in this way as well. You will note that there are only 11 names, that is because there were 2 Apostles named Ya’aqov (James), which brings the total to 12 apostles. Yehuda = Judas Iscariot (Hebrew origin, Betrayed Yeshua/Yehosua the Messiah).Ĭephas / Kephas = Peter (Hebrew / Aramaic origin meaning “Rock”).Īndrew = Andrew (Greek origin. Judah = Jude / Saint Jude (not to be confused with Judas Iscariot, Hebrew origin). Ya’aqov = James (Hebrew origin meaning Jacob).īar-Tôlmay = Bartholomew (Aramaic, which is related to Hebrew). The Hebrew, Aramaic and “Greek” named Apostles were: The names of the Apostles are of Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew origins. Their names were translated/Anglicized after going from Greek to English. I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit disturbed…