Bible History ABC's

 

Bible History ABC's  God's Story from A to Z takes the 26 letters in the alphabet to tell God's story. The book begins with A is for aardvarks, armadillos, an apple, and ADAM and ends with Z is for zebra, zeal, zipper, and ZION. Each letter introduces a foundational concept from a story in the Bible. These stories and concepts are accompanied by scripture passages where they are found. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible. Most of the art that accompanies each letter comes from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The illustrations, paintings, sculptures, and images from church history give children a visual picture to connect with what is in the reading. At the end of the book are three short sections: Everything has a HISTORY, even THE BIBLE, Books of the Bible, and Numbers of the Bible. The target audience is children ages 3-6. 

Here is an example of what you will see within the pages of the book.

O is for 

otters, oranges, octopuses, and the 

MOUNT of OLIVES

An octopus lives down in the sea, 

an owl lives up in a tree, 

and Jesus lived on earth like you and me. 

He went to ordinary places and did ordinary things that all ordinary boys do.

Then one day John baptized Jesus in the Jordan River.

From then on Jesus taught big crowds in the open air and performed miracles like opening blind eyes.

Jesus still went to ordinary places.

He often went to the Mount of Olives. 

It overlooked old Jerusalem and overflowed with ancient and gnarled olive trees.

Here Jesus once prayed all night to obey God's will.

Of all the ordinary things Jesus did, one was not.

He was perfectly obedient, not only often, but all of the time.

"As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people,

from this time forth and forevermore."

PSALM 125:2

The other verses written out are:

Luke 3:21-22; 4:1-2

Luke 22:39

Matthew 26:30

The painting is by Vincent van Gogh Women Picking Olives (1889)

NUMBERS of the Bible

Did you know that there were

THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND,

ONE HUNDRED TWO

Verses in the Bible?

I absolutely adore this book. I think that some would open this book and would say that it is way too advanced for the recommended 3-6 age range. I beg to differ. We often underestimate children's abilities to grasp BIG concepts. The author has done a wonderful job at writing in a way that young children can understand. Concepts such as God's covenant with Abraham and the importance of goats and lambs in ancient Israel and Jesus being the spotless Lamb. All backed up with scripture, these are concepts young children can understand. Add some famous art! I love this combination. Your children will have so much fun making their way through the ABC's and will even have some laughs along the way. I would most definitely recommend this book.  

Disclaimer: I received this book in exchange for my honest thoughts.