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Six Books for Children on the Bible’s Storyline

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In 2008, Jenni and I profited from reading two “documentary novels” by Paul Maier:

  1. Pontius Pilate
  2. The Flames of Rome

We recently received six of his books for children, and they’re outstanding.

1. The Real Story of Creation

2. The Real Story of the Flood

3. The Real Story of the Exodus

4. The Very First Christmas

Jenni warmly recalls reading this many times as a child.

5. The Very First Easter

6. The Very First Christians

The picture of Agrippa (p. 27) reminds me of someone I know!

Related: About a year ago, Jenni and I reviewed several hundred children’s books and highlighted our favorites: “Theology for Kids.”

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  2. Good question. My wife, who earned a degree in early childhood education and then taught for four years, says that the books are “early to mid-elementary.”

  6. Dawn, if you prefer not to use books with pictures of Jesus, I understand and respect that. But at least the first three books (and maybe the last one—I don’t recall) don’t have pictures of Jesus.

  8. For what it’s worth…as a first grade teacher, I’d like to say that it’s very hard for children to visualize a story without its main character’s picture present.

  9. Thanks for sharing this. I’m assuming these would be too difficult for 6 years old?

  10. Jeremy,

    It really depends on your 6 year old. They’re definitely not too difficult if your 6 year old enjoys being read to and likes details. They’re early elementary reading level, but I’m sure a 6 year old would enjoy listening to the stories.

    FWIW, we’re using them with our 19 mos. old daughter, and she really likes the pictures. :)

    Jenni Naselli

  11. That’s something anyway. Thanks! I’m trying to find good Resurrection Sunday children’s books w/out pictures of Jesus and they simply seem to not exist.