Sorting Out the Children’s Bible Market
Yesterday’s post addressed the general subject of children’s Bibles and how to evaluate them for the particular needs of each child and family. But all that is rather abstract unless we have actual Bibles to evaluate. Today’s list is by no means exhaustive, but I’ve tried to find worthy examples of the good, the popular,…
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Choosing Your Child’s First REAL Bible: Some Considerations
Last Tuesday we looked at a range of new Bible storybooks and early reader “Bibles.” On Friday, we picked our way through the field of Bible translations and compared the most popular for accuracy and readability. Today we’re ready to get down to the meat and bones: just how to you choose a Bible for…
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Proverbs, Tricksters and Fools
The book of Proverbs is full of instructions for the simple to obtain wisdom and avoid disaster. Stories about tricksters demonstrate common-grace examples of using cleverness to get out of danger, and the consequences of ignoring counsel and finding adversity. Cleverness is not the same as godly wisdom, but the warnings against laziness and ignoring instruction…
Read MoreAnd the Best Bible Translation Is . . . ?
Warning: Long post, no pictures. Deal! The word is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Heb. 4:12 No book has ever outsold it, no avowed readership exceeds it, no text…
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Toddling into the Word: First Bible Storybooks and Early-Reader Bibles
What could be more appropriate for Holy Week than a survey of children’s Bibles and Bible storybooks? That’s what I foolishly thought, treatment but this project became a version of The Blob the deeper I waded into it. Amazon.com has over 100 pages under the heading “Children’s Bibles, medical ” though many of those are…
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Web Newberys, News, and Freebies (Mar 25)
News It’s the last week of March, and RR is gearing up for some spring-a-licious posts this week. With Easter only a few days away, Janie will look at some children’s Bibles for us, as well as give some insight on Bible translations for kids. What she found may surprise you! Plus, Betsy will survey…
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The Announcement
Good morning! It’s a beautiful day in the Ozarks: Spring is officially here, and Easter is just around the corner! (No, the picture was not touched up or taken last month–this is actually what it looks like outside my window, today, March 22, 2013.) I know everybody is anxious to hear who won our HUGE…
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Easter Picks from the New Crew
We thought we’d kick off our new partnership with Megan and Betsy with a few Easter book recommendations. (If you missed their introduction, read about them here and here.) I will qualify this list by saying just because a book is on our list, that doesn’t mean we love everything about it. In fact, we…
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Meet Our New Redeemedreaders!
As Janie announced yesterday in this post, we’ve got some big changes afoot here at Redeemedreader. We have the honor of welcoming Megan Saben and Betsy Farquhar to our Redeemedreader staff. Janie mentioned some of the ways they’ll be impacting our site–providing more book lists and social media outlets, for instance. But these ladies aren’t…
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Spring Break, Big Changes, and One Huge Book Giveaway!
****THIS BOOK GIVEAWAY IS OVER. BUT THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED! **** As Emily promised a couple of weeks ago, we have some exciting news to share about Redeemed Reader. First and most significantly, we’re thrilled to welcome Megan Saben and Betsy Farquhar to our staff, or masthead, or whatever you call the contributors to…
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