My child loves to read this during Mass, and the text is not intimidating so he can read it himself and not get frustrated. Perfect for sharing with your child or grandchild or for them to read and discover the Bible on their own. Clear, easy-to-understand language and beautiful artwork make this little book is a treasure for young readers.

An important part of our nighttime routine is our evening devotion and The Children's Illustrated Bible has been an important tool. Important quotations from the King James Bible are included with useful references to chapter and verse. Written in conjunction with educators, scholars, and religious advisors, Old and New Testament tales including the Birth of Jesus, Jacobs Ladder, Noahs Ark, and the Resurrection fill this little book thats perfect for sharing with loved ones. The Dorling Kindersley retellings are not only short and elegant to read, but unfamiliar items are illustrated and explained right on the page.The one we had in the 80s had a red cover with The Picture Bible in embossed gold, and no artwork on the cover. Very young children will love looking at the colorful pictures while the book is read aloud, while older children will enjoy reading the stories for themselves. And I’m so happy with this bible because it gives me more inspirations, happiness and power to seek God and know the words of God. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Whereas most bibles would have just shown the happy lovely Noah’s ark with all the lovely animals, mine just had the ark in the background with all the horror of God’s wrath in the foreground. A graduate in modern foreign languages, Janice Emmerson is the bestselling author of The Complete Illustrated Children’s Bible, The Jesus Bible for Kids, and The Illustrated Bible for Little Ones. With simple text and vivid graphic novel style, The Illustrated Bible for Children masterfully retells the exciting episodes of the Old and New Testaments. There would be a double-paged massive picture, dark and gloomy and horrible, almost (but not) like a photo of what the actual scene would have been like. The high quality of the writting, the background information and the pictures deserve a 5-star rating.A graduate in modern foreign languages, Janice Emmerson is the bestselling author of The Complete Illustrated Children's Bible, The Jesus Bible for Kids, and The Illustrated Bible for Little Ones. I was taken to church as a child, was bought a bible and read it again and again, so my knowledge of the bible is good. With nearly 300 beautiful two-page illustrations to capture even the youngest child's imagination and heart, this vast collection of the Bible's most-loved stories is just right for sharing together or reading alone throughout the day. In this outstanding edition of the Bible, the stories of the Old and New Testaments are retold by Selina Hastings in a lucid, flowing style for children's enjoyment and edification. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime when you study these colourful maps and fun facts that will help you learn more about the people, places, and events you read about in your Bible.

My seven year old daughter loves to have me read the stories and talk about the pictures, she is especially interested in the photographs along the sides of the pages showing actual carpenter tools, clothes, jewelery, foods, etc.The illustrations and text are interesting and accurate, it's a wonderful bible for the older children to read on their own, my son is almost ten and loves it.