We have read The Jesus Storybook Bible
This week I got the The Beginning Reader’s Bible
It’s actually a real-life Bible with scriptures not stories. The difference is each “story” is told in just a handful of actual scriptures. We chose to read Nehemiah (which the kids didn’t know!) and the story was a collection of about 30 scriptures taken directly from the book of Nehemiah. The kids got the basic gist of the story and heard the actual words of scripture, too. (The scriptures are taken from the International Children’s Bible which I don’t know a lot about because I usually use the New International Reader’s Version. But so far, so good.)
We’ve begun reading this as Asa’s bedtime story. Then the next day we’ll do an activity based on the story. This is super easy because each story comes with a scripture to memorize, a scripture to pray (LOVE THIS) and an activity labeled, “Do God’s Word”. (LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!)
For Nehemiah, the activity was to make a wall out of pillows and then get inside and pray–thanking God for protecting and surrounding us like a wall. So, we collected some every single pillow in our house and made a wall.
After we read the story again, we decided to get out our swords and build the wall with one hand on our weapons! (4:17-18)
We hopped inside our wall again and held hands. I had the kids repeat a prayer (which is like the cutest thing ever when a 2.5 year old is repeating things like “Nehemiah” and “protection”). They stayed inside the wall for at least an hour–they played with animals, pretended to go night-night and even played doctor.
I loved that they felt comfortable in their little wall. I pray they always feel the protection and comfort of God their Father!
Disclosure: I received this book as part of the Tommy Mommy Club. As always opinions are my own.
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The Beginners Bible is still a favorite here!
What a great giveaway! My daughter loves the Jesus Storybook Bible, but like you, I’d like to have other Bibles that tell other important stories from THE Bible.
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I “like” Impress Your Kids on FB! Also, thank you for this post, and our favorite so far is The Jesus Storybook Bible.
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We like to read The Early Readers Bible and the Toddler Bible. I’m anxiously awaiting for the ABC Bible to come in the mail..maybe today!
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We just started reading the Jesus Storybook Bible, so that would be our favorite right now. 🙂
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I, like you, try to keep things varied and interesting when reading the Bible or Bible storybooks with my children. Currently, we are reading and enjoying “The Sweetest Bible”. Even with its VERY obvious girly bent, my 3 year old son loves it too. The painted pictures are vividly colored and beautiful. I am not familiar with the Beginning Reader Bible and would love to have one.
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Our kids love The Message for kids bible (great activities and prayers), The Read-Together Bible and my son (age 3) is really into the Comic Book Bible because of its fun illustrations! We’re always looking for new, eye-catching and engaging bibles!
We own and love the Jesus Storybook Bible too! 🙂
This sounds like exactly what I am looking for! My youngest daughters wants to read the Bible with us but isn’t quite ready for the long passages.
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We love the Jesus Storybook Bible and the Big Picture Story Bible.
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We love reading the Big Picture Story Bible. It’s great at showing how the whole Bible points to Christ.
We love the Jesus Storybook Bible also. My daughter’s favorite story is the story of Creation.
We purchased the jesus storybook bible recently, the deluxe version with the audio cds. My 4 yr old LOVES listening to it in the car. I saw this book while we were deciding & it looked like a very nice book.