The World's Most Wonderful Book

From SPARK

One-sentence summary

A nonfiction Christian book for children that tells how the Bible came to be.

Description

The World's Most Wondeful Book is one of a series of ten books for children. The series is called Bible World. This book explains that the Bible is made up of many different books. These were written between 2000 and 3500 years ago. From then until now, many people have risked their lives to read or hear the Bible.

Section titles are:

• The Book of the Faith
• Telling Stories
• Writing
• Moses and the Law
• The History Writers
• The Prophets
• Poetry
• The Books of Wisdom
• Gathering the Books Together
• The Greek Translation
• The Deuterocanonical Books (The Apocrypha)
• The Stories of Jesus
• More Stories of Jesus
• Letters from Christians
• The Christian Bible
• Many Languages
• Retelling the Bible
• Books for All
• Light for the World
• A Signpost to God

Some sections includes text, colored illustrations, and photographs, maps, graphs, and quotations. Other sections includes a related Did you know? question.

Considerations

• For children 9-12 years old.
• The section titled Retelling the Bible explains that Jesus wanted all people to hear His message. Since Jesus time, Christians have been retelling the Bible in many different ways and languages.
• This hardcover book is 11.5" x 8.8".

Limitations

• Most of the illustrations and photographs show parts of people and scenes. These will need to be explained to children who are not picture literate.

Guidelines for Use

• As a filmstrip.
• In schools and Christian schools

Where to Obtain

Link to Producer or Source Organization

Lion Hudson plc (also published in the U.S. by Thomas Nelson Publishers)

Cost

• This book is currently out of print, but a limited number of copies are available at Amazon.com
• Amazon.com lists used books for $0.32 (USD) as of June 2008.
• Amazon. com lists new books for $7.58 (USD) as of June 2008.

Producer/Owners

Author/Artist/Producer

• Author: John Drane
• Artist: Chris Molan

Current copyright owner

Lion Publishing, 1996

Other Information

If you are interested in translating this children's book for a minority language group, contact Lion Publishing. They will help you work out a Creative Commons License agreement.

Reviewed by

Vida, VMS

Date

June 24, 2008