This is a decent children's Bible. I like that it includes much more of the Bible than the traditional "stories" that are taught children. I also like much of the wording. It simplifies certain lessons so a child can understand it without altering the meaning of the text. I've actually found myself looking at some passages in a fresh way because of the perspective presented! However, that being said, I also encounter places where the wording is too complex for the average child. Its an interesting mix of simple and complex. And oddly, it goes into alarming details that would be disturbing to my children. And the illustrations, while mostly pleasant, are minimal. Overall its usable, with some parental discretion and common sense. The wording and amount of content are appropriate for children as young as 4, but be prepared to do some editing. My children seem to find it too simplistic around age 8. At which point I moved them to a regular Bible in a simpler language version.
This is an excellent and well-illustrated children's bible - quite suitable for teaching the bible as literature, it doesn't sugarcoat or edit much out of the grisly stories of the old testament, and the geography, timelines, and discussion of the books that make up the canon in the appendices allow one to approach the stories from a scholarly perspective as well.
I sat on my cousin's couch laughing- my dad's girlfriend claims I am the first person she's seen find so much humour in the bible. The pictures are fantastic! They don't flush over the fact that Rahab was a prostitute and all I could think about was some little girl shamelessly informing her parents that she too wanted to be a prostitute, just like Rahab.