Review: The Beginner's Bible

The Beginner's Bible

Timeless Children's Stories

By Zonderkidz

Illustrated by Kelly Pulley

Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Mission City Press
ISBN: 978-0-310-70962-6

Summary/Back cover:
Introduce children to the stories and characters of the Bible with this best-loved Bible storybook. With vibrant art and compelling text, more than 900 Bible stories come to life. Kids aged 6 and under will enjoy the fun illustrations of Noah helping the elephant onto the ark, Jonah praying inside the fish, and more as they discover The Beginner's Bible just like millions of children before.

Both of my boys have been given one of these books by our church when they were baptised, and they are just the most beautiful wee bibles you've ever seen. The stories are selected and summarised to a children's level - for example:

"On the fifth day, God made swishy fish and squiggly creatures to live in the ocean. Then God made birds to fly across the sky."

Every page has a vibrant picture on it, related to the text, and it is a very easy book to read - although it is 508 pages long, it is a very quick book to read, and wouldn't take more than about half an hour, if you were to read front to back (although, the Bible is not intended to be read like that, so I've never read the whole lot to my boys at once - I just choose a selected story or two, and then talk about it more.)

My rating: 5 out of 5 - as far as a beginner's Bible goes, this is one of the best ones I've seen. Thoroughly recommended for those that want to find a Bible for their pre-schoolers.

Review written by Bronwyn