In the introduction of the children’s bible it begins with a paraphrase of Psalm 19:1-2.
The Heavens are singing
about how great God is;
about how great God is;
and the skies are shouting it out,
“See what God has made!”
Day after day… Night after night…
They are speaking to us.
To make a bible interesting to children it has to be like speaking. There has to be a story, something exciting. Inflection in the voice that is reading to the child. Or imaginative pictures to inspire the active imagination that lives inside our children. The pictures in The Jesus Storybook Bible are fantastically whimsical. They tell a story as much as the words do. Together the pictures and words make the bible come alive. As soon as I received this bible to review I opened it up and started reading it and didn’t want to put it down. I was very impressed.
No, not every story is in this bible but all of the major stories are. There is enough in here to start a good foundation in a child for the stories of the bible.
My daughter has three or four bibles now. She has one out in the van that she took to church with her. It was so cute as we were walking out the door she grabbed her bible and said “read”. Sorry, I had to share a little side note there.
This was written by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Illustrated by Jago. Jago has also illustrated many other children’s books and you can find his blog Jago Illustration.
About the Author:
Sally Lloyd-Jones bloggs about many random things. One of those being ramblings about Barbie. Now her business site is here. She is an author of children’s stories. She has written many different story bibles. This one being published by Zondervan.
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that looks like a good one! i’m somewhat a connoisseur of children’s bibles and i’m VERY picky. the illustrations are so key and this one looks like it’s got fabulous pictures. i HATE the beginners bible w/ all the big googly eyes that make everyone look like a garfield cartoon. makes it hard to think seriously about jesus when his eyes look like they’re going to pop off his face! my favorite so far is the children’s every day bible.
We have this one… it’s great. We like the fact that the stories are told like stories… we read the Christmas story to the boys on Christmas Eve this year. It was told in a way that they really got it, and then asked for the next part of the story. When was the last time you heard of kids asking for more Bible reading? I know I didn’t do that when I was a kid.