In this mod­ern ver­sion of the Bib­li­cal tale, Gadot has inject­ed a warm and car­ing sense of humor into what became the dis­per­sion of mankind. His retelling of the Gen­e­sis sto­ry of man’s pride and arro­gance against God high­lights man’s belief that he could reach the heav­ens and be equal to God, there­by able to rule earth and sky. Gadot’s cur­rent inter­pre­ta­tion does not men­tion God direct­ly but relies upon the use of a ter­ri­ble bolt of light­ning, pow­er­ful thun­der, and rain to invoke the lan­guage change in the peo­ple of Shi­nar and their inabil­i­ty to under­stand one anoth­er. Set­ting up the sto­ry by choos­ing col­or­ful, com­i­cal fig­ures engaged in tongue-in-cheek ban­ter, along with the inclu­sion of mod­ern top­ics such as the inter­net, gov­ern­ments, and rock bands, cer­tain­ly plays upon our lan­guages skills while serv­ing to bring the moral les­son into the present time­frame. Gadot’s text and Rebora’s illus­tra­tions work well for kinder­garten through fourth grade. Used as a tool to height­en a class­room dis­cus­sion on com­mu­ni­ca­tion, pride, or the range of man’s pow­ers, Tow­er of Babel offers to open deep­er dis­cus­sions into this Bib­li­cal tale and the rela­tion­ship between man and God. For ages 5 – 9.