The Action Bible: Heroes and Villains

by David C Cook

This extensive, full-color guide to Bible characters includes fascinating facts and figures about the Bible’s most curious but sometimes relatable people. Including all-new illustrations from graphic artist Sergio Cariello, The Action Bible Heroes and Villains draws in young readers
   
From Adam and Eve’s most embarrassing moment to the details of a Roman soldier’s armor to Zechariah’s hometown, the unique insights and dynamic illustrations in this jam-packed guide jump off the pages and into kids’ minds and hearts as they meet people just like them whom God used in His redemptive story.

 

160 pages, Hardcover

Published February 1, 2022

Reviews

[Brendan McKee · Rating 1 out of 5]

So I first spotted this book at a pawn shop. Months later it was still there and so I bought it because I thought it was hilarious and in a way it did not disappoint. This book is spectacularly silly, trying to make the bible “cool” to appeal to a younger audience. I will say the art is pretty good, but that’s about the only positive I have. Asides from seemingly presenting a pretty fundamentalist view of the bible, this book is highly repetitive and struggles to fill a page - the entry for Balaam, for example, tells the story about him and his donkey three times on the same page.

Don’t spend your money on this book.

[blueygurl2016 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Despite the other negative reviews, I really enjoyed this. I liked the fact that it included the modern day equivalents of the biblical places: that’s always something I’ve been interested in, but no map in Bibles or commentaries actually are good about explaining the modern-day equivalent. Like the Bible is full of all these weird places that are extremely hard to pronounce that some of us have never even heard of, especially if we don’t spend a lot of time in the OT but like why don’t modern maps give possible modern-day equivalents along with where the ancient place was? That would be extremely helpful. But I loved that this actually did say where the modern equivalent is. Also I learned of new characters so that’s neat. I liked how this presented most of the characters as having both good and bad qualities because that is true to their character in the Bible and true to human life. While we may be Christians we still sin. So I liked that this presented that they weren’t perfect or that they had a struggle that they had to overcome. That was nice.

[L. Reed]

Great Read & Awesome Book!

[Jennifer DeBord · Rating 3 out of 5]

Repetitive and some typos. The Action Bible was better. This is a short (thin) book, only 159 pages.