We’ve had many favourite kids’ bibles over the years in the Vicarage (and previously in the Curatage, the Ordinandage and the Engineerage). Top reads have included The Jesus Storybook Bible, the Big Picture Story Bible, the Praise Bible (sourced in a secondhand shop) and (when they were very little) The God Loves Me Bible. For a while the Engineer was very keen on the Veggietales Bible Storybook, and whilst I wouldn’t recommend it for teaching kids great doctrine or anything, his enjoyment more than made up for the struggles we had with reading about Dave and the Giant Pickle repeatedly. I think he learnt to read his first words from that book. As I recall, they were ‘God’ (yay!) and ‘Dave’ (not such a yay for that one).
Our kids love variety so we are always hunting for the newest best bible. All our kids can read a ‘proper’ bible now and the Engineer had been using an International Children’s Bible and the excellent XTB bible reading notes. He’d just finished a set of notes when I went on my conference the other week, where there was a hard-to-resist bookstall where they were selling The Gospel Story Bible.
I had a look through and decided that the 7yo Engineer might enjoy reading through this for a change from his bible notes. The way in which the bible stories are told pointing to Christ are so helpful. And each story comes with a few questions to help the child clarify what they’ve read and learnt. And this evening the Engineer skipped into the kitchen just before bedtime and told me he’d read three bible stories all by himself. He was so excited to communicate all that he’d learnt about the plagues and the Passover.
That’s a winner of a bible for me. Which bible do your kids read or have read to them? Do you have a family favourite?
The Vicar's Wife 
This struck a chord as we really struggled to find a Bible that was both pictorially appealing and doctrinally correct. In the end we settled for a faithful old Lion version!
The selling point was not only did they portray the Last Supper correctly, using the words of Christ, but the text was very thoughtful, such as at the end of Genesis. Adam & Eve being cast out of the garden is described as “the saddest day” and ends by saying that “God was the saddest of all because he still loved them”. The revelation passages are equally well written, no apocalyptic images and an overwhelming happy tone, which is as it should be!