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5-Minute Adventure Bible Stories, Polar Exploration Edition
Children will love these timeless 5-minute Bible adventures, now featuring cool, fun, and frosty polar accents! With text and art from the bestselling Adventure Bible brand, more than 30 stories come alive with bright, colorful illustrations and fun, interactive elements. If you’re looking for a collection of easy-to-read, easy-to-understand Bible stories that will immerse your children in God’s Word over and over again … you found it! Each of these stories can be shared in just five minutes, making this collection perfect for families on the go, children learning to read, and bedtime. Best of all, the engaging illustrations that go along with each story help make Scripture stick with young readers. 5-Minute Adventure Bible Stories, Polar Exploration Edition :
192 pages, Hardcover
Published September 3, 2019
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1,769 books109 followersZondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company. Zondervan is a founding member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). They are a part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc. and has multiple imprints including Zondervan Academic, Zonderkidz, Blink, and Editorial Vida. Zondervan is the commercial rights holder for the New International Version (NIV) Bible in North America.
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October 18, 2019
“But the adventure isn’t over. The most important thing has yet to happen …Jesus is coming back!” the ending states in Catherine DeVries’s book, 5-Minute Adventure Bible Stories: Polar Exploration Edition.
~ What ~
Part of the Adventure Bible series, this one-hundred-and-ninety-two-page hardbound targets children ages four to eight years old who are looking for quick Bible stories that can be read in five minutes or less and like illustrations of a few polar animals. Using wide-sweeping, full-color, full-page artwork, it references the New International Version of the Bible. The beginning has a table of contents, followed by thirty-four stories and ending with an advertisement.
In this oversized book with a padded cover, there are seventeen stories taken from the Old Testament and seventeen from the New Testament. With each covering four to six pages, the well-known stories range from Creation, Moses, Gideon, and Esther to Jesus’s birth, miracles, death, and resurrection to name a few. At the end of each story is a scroll with an adapted Adventure Discovery and Words to Treasure.
~ Why ~
Many young children love to read or be read a Bible story at bedtime. I love how this book is laid out with detailed, realistic characters and scenery while the paragraphs are written in a black font over part of the background. The stories are told simply but contain enough facts to understand and comprehend. Including the ending of each story with a fact or tidbit and a written out Bible verse is helpful.
~ Why Not ~
For those who want nothing to do with learning about the God and the Bible, this would not be a good choice. Although there is no explanation of Mary’s virginity, the plan of eternal salvation of Jesus shedding His blood on the cross for our sins and rising again is mentioned. Some young ones may be frightened seeing the depictions of angry men and Jesus being crucified. Many key stories are missing such as David and Goliath, Jonah and the great fish, and Daniel in the lions’ den.
~ Wish ~
With the theme supposedly about a polar expedition, only the front and back cover and first few pages depict the regional animals so there no frosty polar accents within its contents as suggested on the back jacket. With no exploration content, it appears to be misleading; even though I appreciate its stories, I have marked it down considerably. I wish all pronouns of God were capitalized for reverence.
~ Want ~
If your preschooler to early elementary school-age child wants to read more vivid stories from the Bible, this would be a nice idea, but there is little correlation to polar events or cold-climate animals (which are rarely mentioned in the Bible).
Thanks to Z-Blog Squad for furnishing this complimentary book that I am under no obligation to review.
~ What ~
Part of the Adventure Bible series, this one-hundred-and-ninety-two-page hardbound targets children ages four to eight years old who are looking for quick Bible stories that can be read in five minutes or less and like illustrations of a few polar animals. Using wide-sweeping, full-color, full-page artwork, it references the New International Version of the Bible. The beginning has a table of contents, followed by thirty-four stories and ending with an advertisement.
In this oversized book with a padded cover, there are seventeen stories taken from the Old Testament and seventeen from the New Testament. With each covering four to six pages, the well-known stories range from Creation, Moses, Gideon, and Esther to Jesus’s birth, miracles, death, and resurrection to name a few. At the end of each story is a scroll with an adapted Adventure Discovery and Words to Treasure.
~ Why ~
Many young children love to read or be read a Bible story at bedtime. I love how this book is laid out with detailed, realistic characters and scenery while the paragraphs are written in a black font over part of the background. The stories are told simply but contain enough facts to understand and comprehend. Including the ending of each story with a fact or tidbit and a written out Bible verse is helpful.
~ Why Not ~
For those who want nothing to do with learning about the God and the Bible, this would not be a good choice. Although there is no explanation of Mary’s virginity, the plan of eternal salvation of Jesus shedding His blood on the cross for our sins and rising again is mentioned. Some young ones may be frightened seeing the depictions of angry men and Jesus being crucified. Many key stories are missing such as David and Goliath, Jonah and the great fish, and Daniel in the lions’ den.
~ Wish ~
With the theme supposedly about a polar expedition, only the front and back cover and first few pages depict the regional animals so there no frosty polar accents within its contents as suggested on the back jacket. With no exploration content, it appears to be misleading; even though I appreciate its stories, I have marked it down considerably. I wish all pronouns of God were capitalized for reverence.
~ Want ~
If your preschooler to early elementary school-age child wants to read more vivid stories from the Bible, this would be a nice idea, but there is little correlation to polar events or cold-climate animals (which are rarely mentioned in the Bible).
Thanks to Z-Blog Squad for furnishing this complimentary book that I am under no obligation to review.
October 19, 2019
I found myself truly enjoying these quick easy stories. I could easily see reading one of these stories to my children before bed-time as a way to connect and relax and just enjoy a story before bed time. The images are well done. The writing is easy for little ones to understand and enjoy. There are extras that allow for questions and a time for reflection and more exploration. I recommend you add this to your children's library, would make a great Christmas or anytime gift.
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