This series of Bible stories, based on a BBC animated series, aims to introduce children to the story of Jesus and early Christianity in an accessible way. This tale is about Nero, who decides to attack Rome with a huge catapult, but Zak gets a chance to show he has a better aim.

 

This book features in the following series: Older Readers, Storykeepers-Younger Readers, The Storykeepers .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Andrew Melrose is a Principal Lecturer at King Alfred's University College Winchester and runs Writing for Children, a creative writing Masters Degree concentrating solely on children's literature. He has over forty book and film credits, including The Storykeepers series for ITV, two feature films and recently wrote Write for Children (Routledge, 2001). He was born in Scotland and lives in Brighton. Katja Bandlow was born in Bremen, Germany, and completed her Diploma in Children's Book Illustration at Hamburg University. She has studied illustration in London and Italy and is published in France and Germany. She lives in Hamburg, where she works part-time as a physiotherapist and children's book illustrator. This is her first book for Random House. Brian Brown is a senior producer and story editor for NBC Olympics. He lives in Westchester, NY.