The Horn Book Guide

RELIGION

Ellis, Gwen, Reteller

Read and Share Toddler Bible

192 pp. | Thomas | July, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4003-1464-5 $14.99

(4) PS Illustrated by Steve Smallman. Ellis retells forty familiar stories from the Old and New Testaments using simple language and repetition: "Pound! Pound! Saw! Saw! Joseph made a table." The tales are stripped to the bare-bones plot, and each concludes with a suggestion for a related activity (e.g., making a rainbow, singing a song, talking about kindness). Smallman's cartoon-style illustrations are kid-friendly.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth