Why are kids Bibles so lame?
Each night Kristin and I do storytime with Liv before bed. I must say though, the quality of many of the childrens storybook Bibles are pretty poor. I spent nearly an hour in a local Christian bookstore last year looking for one…and didn’t have much luck.
Well, since then, we have some progress and I figured my pain in searching might benefit someone out there. This is my top pick for childrens story Bibles:
The Beginners Bible
We have read through this over the last year. Short amount of words per page. Relatively accurate stories. Good length and content for up to 4 or 5 years old. Honestly, the writing wasn’t exceptional, but it did the trick and it was heaps better than most of the others we found.
Jesus Storybook
This is our new book. I LOVE it. The writing is great and the illustrations are excellent. Liv might be a little young for it, but it is working out. I’d say starting at age 4 or 5. I can’t vouch for the whole book yet though…since we are only on the second story :)
And for those of you who are bit older (like me….over the hill at 30), I recommend the MacArthur Study Bible…but I think I’ve mentioned that before.
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We like reading Luke A Little Child’s First Bible…I’m not sure how it ranks compared to the ones you recommended but because at 4 months he can comfortably put it in his mouth (it has a nice soft cover) it is our current number 1 choice :)
The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every story whispers his name is excellent! I worked as a children’s minister for a year and we went through the whole book and I taught our lessons off of it. It is so wonderful for children of ALL ages! Fantastic! I would recommend it to anyone! I actually bought one for myself! The story telling is great and the pictures are wonderful! I hope she enjoys it!
Hey Darren,
Was reading some of your older blog entries and noticed you mentioned making a post about christian dating as adults in our generation. Please do write about this, love to know what you think!!
Kristina – oh yes, I’ll have to carve out some time to do that soon. It’s a topic that I feel pretty strongly about!
They make a graphic novel/comic book style Action Bible that Timm has bought for the boys & made available to the Super Kids church & Holsom makes great comic type series that our boys love.