“Joseph laid the body of Jesus in the tomb, which was closed up with a large stone rolled across the entrance. . . The next day was the Jewish holy day when nobody worked,” writes Brian Sibley in The Empty Tomb: The story of Easter, illustrated by Stephen Waterhouse, originally for the book 50 Favourite Bible Stories, from which this new children’s paperback has been adapted (Lion Children’s/SPCK, £6.99 (£6.30); 978-0-7459-7974-8)