The One Year Bible for Children (Tyndale Kids)

I have a issue with summarizing chapters and this is. Great way for me to learn more with my child !

I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself; we're only on March 25, and already I have to review this book. It was just impossible to wait until we'd finished out the entire yearJ.Being a christian is hard even before you even consider God's command that we must also raise our children in the ways of the Lord and teach them the scriptures. It would be easy to just put that job off on the Sunday school teachers (and much of the time, that's exactly what I did), but is that really *their* job? Traditionally, my family not only went to church on Sundays but also Wednesday nights and we read from the bible, although not every night. That was how I grew up learning about the bible, but I confess, it seemed like a dry and dull way. My grandmother also had a set of vinyl records with bible stories and picture books to accompany them (I don't remember the titles) -- now that was more interesting, and stuck with me more as I grew and remembered the beautiful illustrations. So now as a parent, that seems more intuitively the ideal way to bring the bible alive for my own boys.The One Year Bible for Children is nicely geared toward children of about elementary school age as a daily "devotional" style read-aloud. It begins on January 1 with the Genesis creation story and follows approximately along the time line through the Old and New Testaments until the end of the year. Flipping through, I would say that about half of the daily selections have illustrations -- but they're truly top quality illustrations, nothing cartoon-y or "babyish" about them (please excuse me, those are pet peeves of mine..I believe children's books should be every bit as well-illustrated and lovely as anything an adult would read that has illustrations). The text is a simplified version of the more familiar bible stories, which seem to be selected for being interesting and action-oriented from a kids point of view, and they are told in a language that paraphrases to a child's level of understanding, but never patronizes them. Each "day" ranges in length from one quarter page to a full page of text. At the bottom of each selection, there are questions that parents can use to help the children recall details of the story and encourage them to analyze and apply the morals and principles to their own lives. My 6- and 10-year-olds never stall or complain when "story time" comes every night.To give you a taste of this book: As of this day in March 25 the book has progressed to Joshua 1-2, "Spies Visit Jericho", with a small box illustration in the bottom corner page. Tomorrow's has "Crossing the Jordan River" with a two-page spread and a colorful, panoramic picture taking up the entire bottom half. An excerpt reads: "Joshua gave orders, too. "Each of you must make yourself clean on the outside to show that your heart is pure and clean on the inside," he said. "Tomorrow you will see a miracle". The next morning Joshua gave orders to the priests. "Take the Ark and lead us across the river", he said. So the procession started." Skipping ahead to the New Testament, September 2nd, Jesus Stops a Storm, the entire two page spread is the picture of the disciples and Jesus in the boat with the text printed over it: "Jesus spoke to the wind and the waves. "Be quiet!" he said. The wind and waves died down quickly. Suddenly everything was calm and still. "Why were you so afraid?" he asked the disciples. "Don't you believe in me?"Fabulous!Yes of course attending Sunday school and memorizing verses is indispensable in our children's education. Why not also make it seem real and alive to them? I will be giving this book to many other children as birthday and Christmas gifts -- what a great way for them to see bible history!Andrea, aka Merribelle

Great to read with children or have them read to you.

Me and my children read this almost everyday. We love it.

I am learning the Bible along with my young child. She is 7 and we have graduated to this Bible. We are aiming for doing one lesson a night. Just enough detail for someone her age, and really enough for me too at this point in my studies! Each story is one or two pages, but the pictures take up about half of each page. Not too long for those with short attention spans, like my 7 year old, and her ADD mother. Beautiful Illustrations. Easy to follow text. LOVE the short questions and the end of each story. It makes sure you understand and think about what you just read. If you don't remember the answers, it's simple to just go back and scan the text for it. The questions are a great tool to make sure your child has actually listened to what you just read. It's good for discussion and a great tool to make sure you "get it". There are also questions about what would you do or think in those situations... ones to which there is no right or wrong answer, but great for pondering and discussing yours and your child's thoughts.

I love this children's bible. It helps to teach children about the word of God and has picture illustrations. I find it very helpful as a parent who is teaching my child about Christ.

My kid loves the pictures and it’s very easy to follow, encourages little ones to reflect since it has a moral of the story part at the end of every story/page.

We read this book with our children, who are now in their 20s. They looked forward to it each evening. More recently we had a family who had children come into our lives. The older girl, almost a teen, borrowed it and read it cover to cover. We got a copy for them to keep, and she reads it to her younger siblings.

Excellent bible...love the concept of one story per day with questions for kids and it contains beautiful pictures.

The format of this book gives a Bible story every day for children.I read it at bed time every night with my daughter.She really looks forward to hearing the story, and loves the artistic illustrations.The pictures are colourful,portraying scenes related to the written text.The text is suitable and gives an accurate rendition of Holy Scripture.I would thoroughly recommend this as bed time reading for parent/child- or any time of day.This book gives Glory to God- Go for it!

My first time buying a used book and I totally wish i did not.It already has names written on it.Can I return it?

Very good for parents to read to their kids.

well written and easy to read to children or they can read it