

Series: Colour Books
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: CF4Kids (September 20, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1857928385
ISBN-13: 978-1857928389
Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 0.9 x 9.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Really appreciate there's no depictions of Christ in this book.
This children's Bible features a great many of the Bible's most familiar (and some not-as-familiar) stories. Each story gets 1-3 pages of medium sized text, so we would read either a full or a half story to our 3 and 5 year olds each evening (5-10 minutes of read aloud time). The stories are told with a bit of simplifying and interpretation, but only to condense each selection into readable chunks. The author does a good job of making sense to young kids without betraying the meaning of the original text. This is a fairly long book, with quite a few stories, and there were only maybe 3-4 points throughout the book with which I would take issue, and generally you can tell it's only because the author was trying to simplify things. Overall, pretty accurate and comprehensive and at a decent reading level for our 5 year old. We'll probably go through it again when our kids are 5 and 7, and they'll get more out ot it.The pictures are so-so, but my kids liked them. Complex enough for kids to look at them for a couple minutes, but simple enough that you can tell exactly which moment the illustration is intending to capture.
It's pretty good, but not as thorough as the other book that Anne de Vries wrote called "Groot Vertelboek Voor De Bijbelse Geschiedenis". I was hoping this would be that but in English =|This one is okay I guess...
I grew up on the Children's Bible by Anne De Vries (1963 edition), and I'm so glad to see that it's been republished! She makes the stories so understandable. She's sympathetic and empathetic and helps young children see the reasons people acted the way they did, why God said things and how he must have felt, and why events happened. This is a nice long Bible, with chapter breaks at good intervals for bedtime reading. My mom read to us from it before bed starting when I was about 5 and my sisters 4 and 1. After several weeks she would finish it, and move on to another book. After that book, she would ask us what we wanted to read next. Many times we asked for this Children's Bible, and she would start it again. I can't imagine a better one for kids.
As far as story Bibles go, this is excellent for the 3-8 year old children. Sometimes we could not read a whole chapter at one sitting, but otherwise as a family we are really happy with it.
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