Title: Bedtime Bible Story Book
Author: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Publisher: Barbour
Date: 1989
ISBN: 1-55748-264-0
Length: 510 pages
Quote: “This great world of ours is very old; so old that no one knows when it was made.”
It takes a certain rashness to try to improve on “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The quote above is Hurlbut’s effort in that direction. From it I think the whole book can be fairly judged.
Children love bedtime stories and don’t insist on their being especially well-written ones, so this fat, flimsy paperback (the front cover fell off my copy) may be the bargain it was marketed as being. One thick book, light enough to read in bed, summarizes all the kid-friendly stories from Genesis to Revelation.
If you can get Arthur Maxwell’s Bible Story, or Elsie Egermeier’s Life of Jesus, or The Children’s Bible, you’re almost certain to think they’re more attractive Bible story books than this one. Children do like the colorful pictures in those books.
However, the line drawings by Kathy Arbuckle may be this book’s best feature. Children love making pictures colorful, and if a child who frequently visited me had reached the stage of being able to color in its own drawings, the drawings in the more advanced children’s coloring books, traced maps, etc., with reasonable fidelity to the lines, I might offer that child this book as a reward. The line drawings are excellent for coloring in.
Some children may prefer a Bible story book they can decorate for themselves to one with beautiful museum-quality paintings reprinted in it.
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