My family loves John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678). Charles Spurgeon read this classic over one hundred times. It’s a pity that many Christians today have not read it even once. Here are some versions we enjoy:
1. Pictorial Pilgrim’s Progress, illustrated by Joanne Brubaker (Chicago: Moody, 1960).
It’s excellent for young children because there is a picture on every page, and the text is simple and straightforward.
- The Kindle version includes all the illustrations.
- The book is especially meaningful to me for reasons that are evident in the below correspondence I had with my former pastor, Mike Bullmore:
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[email from me to Mike Bullmore on 6/7/2010]
Dear Mike,
I’m in the process of cataloging my print and electronic library, and I just entered this book in my database:
Bunyan, John. Pictorial Pilgrim’s Progress. Chicago: Moody, 1960.
I opened it up and reread what I wrote on the inside cover:
I read this very book to Michael after he relapsed. He loved to look at the pictures as I read and explained Bunyan’s outstanding allegory. Now Michael is at the glorious end of his difficult journey, and I look forward to seeing him again in the celestial city!
Andy
4/25/2002
A little background:
I’m the second of seven children . . . . In December 1998 (during my freshman year of college), my family was shocked to learn that my youngest brother Michael, who was three years old at the time, had cancer—Stage IV Neuroblastoma. [Read more…] about The Pilgrim’s Progress for Children (and Adults)