Helping your children understand the Bible’s big story

It seems that every Christian publisher has its ‘Bible stories for children’ book. Theologian and renowned Bible scholar Tom Wright is concerned that too many of these tell the stories as if they are designed to give a moral principle like with Aesop’s Fables, but don’t give the child a sense of the sweep of scripture from Genesis to Revelation and the overarching story of God looking to be with and eventually live with the people he has made. He is particularly keen that’s his own grandchildren pick up on this element and so no doubt writes it with them in mind.

So as well as the standard stories: creation, Noah’s ark, Joseph’s coat, Joshua and Jeriho, David and Goliath, Daniel in the lions’ den, Jonah and the bIg fish: we have other less popular bits: the promises and warnings to Israel from Deuteronomy, the story of the prophet Hosea, the division of Israel into two kingdoms.

The book is hardback, A4 size and each story has a colour picture illustrated by Helena Perez Garcia

As perhaps befits a New Testament scholar there are more New Testament stories than Old (73 to 67!)