Impress Your Kids » Blog Archive » Nehemiah’s Wall {giveaway}

February 28, 2011 | Filed in: Books, Movies & Music | by Amanda

We have read The Jesus Storybook Bibleso many times that sadly, my kids think THAT is the Bible. And there are some Bible stories they don’t know because we’ve never read them! I’m always on the lookout for new Bible storybooks that aren’t too cheesy or watered down.

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This week I got the The Beginning Reader’s Biblefrom Thomas Nelson*. And oh, wow, do I love it! It’s gorgeous–a huge book that’s perfect for laps and for sharing with lots of eager eyes. It even has a bookmark (which Lydia looooves).

It’s actually a real-life Bible with scriptures not stories. The difference is each “story” is told in just a handful of actual scriptures. We chose to read Nehemiah (which the kids didn’t know!) and the story was a collection of about 30 scriptures taken directly from the book of Nehemiah. The kids got the basic gist of the story and heard the actual words of scripture, too. (The scriptures are taken from the International Children’s Bible which I don’t know a lot about because I usually use the New International Reader’s Version. But so far, so good.)

We’ve begun reading this as Asa’s bedtime story. Then the next day we’ll do an activity based on the story. This is super easy because each story comes with a scripture to memorize, a scripture to pray (LOVE THIS) and an activity labeled, “Do God’s Word”. (LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS!)

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For Nehemiah, the activity was to make a wall out of pillows and then get inside and pray–thanking God for protecting and surrounding us like a wall. So, we collected some every single pillow in our house and made a wall.

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After we read the story again, we decided to get out our swords and build the wall with one hand on our weapons! (4:17-18)

nehemiah wall

We hopped inside our wall again and held hands. I had the kids repeat a prayer (which is like the cutest thing ever when a 2.5 year old is repeating things like “Nehemiah” and “protection”). They stayed inside the wall for at least an hour–they played with animals, pretended to go night-night and even played doctor.

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I loved that they felt comfortable in their little wall. I pray they always feel the protection and comfort of God their Father!

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Disclosure: I received this book as part of the Tommy Mommy Club. As always opinions are my own.

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My daughter loves the Jesus Storybook Bible and I do too!

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My daughter has a Bible Story book called “God Loves You”

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My kids love their “The Beginners Bible”.

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Our favorite is the Jesus Storybook Bible!

I think I have an addiction to children’s Bibles – sign me up!

I always appreciate your reviews, Amanda. It is so hard to find book books, that are not “cheesy or watered-down”, like you said. Thanks.

Our fav, for sure, is the Jesus Storybook Bible. Next would be: The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes, by Kenneth N Taylor. The stories are super-short, and continually point the kids to looking at the picture, and asking questions about what they see. The picture for each story is very detailed, and great at helping them understand what is going on in the story. It has been great at keeping my squirmy 5yo boy, and 3yo daughter interested. It is also pretty thorough, in that it doesn’t skip over the stories that usually get missed.

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We’re big Jesus Storybook Bible fans around here! This one looks great too.

you KNOW what my fav storybook Bible is! I’d love to see this one, too…

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My daughter’s favorite right now is the ABC Bible book! It goes through the alphabet and puts a verse with each letter! Not stories from the Bible exactly but still lots of fun!

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We are huge fans of the Jesus Storybook Bible! We also love The Lamb by John R. Cross. It’s a wonderful story of the Gospel!

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I am getting ready to order the Jesus Storybook Bible b/c I’ve heard so much about it. Right now my almost 2 yr old carries around her mini New Testament and “teaches” her animals about Jesus!

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My three year old loves Noa’s Ark.

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We read Read With Me Bible with our three year old.

Right now we use The Young Learner’s Bible Storybook and The Usborne Family Bible! I would live to win this one! Sounds awesome!

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The Jesus Storybook Bible is our favorite! We have the deluxe edition so my 5 yo can even listen to the CDs!

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I go to a used book sale every month & check out the kid bible section. So I’m always trying new ones. My kids like the Beginner’s Bible

We love “The Big Picture Story Bible” and “The Jesus Storybook Bible”…both so good! We also like “A Child’s First Bible”. We would love to win this!

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My daughter loves “My First Bible”

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For sure my kiddos favorite bible story is the Easter Story.

My daughter is only 20 months but so far we love the Jesus Storybook bible!

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We read out of the Jesus Storybook Bible right now and would love to try this!

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Our favorite (of many) would be Kenneth Taylor’s The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes. It has some of the stories that are usually skipped in other in Bible story books and it has questions that are thought provoking for kids which also makes it very interactive for kids and parents! I have one version from my childhood and we have the new one for my daughter and she likes comparing the pictures in both of them.

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We love tge Jesus storybook bible, but we’ve been through it three times now. This looks like a great book!!

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The Beginners Bible is still a favorite here!

What a great giveaway! My daughter loves the Jesus Storybook Bible, but like you, I’d like to have other Bibles that tell other important stories from THE Bible.

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I “like” Impress Your Kids on FB! Also, thank you for this post, and our favorite so far is The Jesus Storybook Bible.

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We like to read The Early Readers Bible and the Toddler Bible. I’m anxiously awaiting for the ABC Bible to come in the mail..maybe today!

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We just started reading the Jesus Storybook Bible, so that would be our favorite right now.

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I, like you, try to keep things varied and interesting when reading the Bible or Bible storybooks with my children. Currently, we are reading and enjoying “The Sweetest Bible”. Even with its VERY obvious girly bent, my 3 year old son loves it too. The painted pictures are vividly colored and beautiful. I am not familiar with the Beginning Reader Bible and would love to have one.

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Our kids love The Message for kids bible (great activities and prayers), The Read-Together Bible and my son (age 3) is really into the Comic Book Bible because of its fun illustrations! We’re always looking for new, eye-catching and engaging bibles!

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We love the Jesus Storybook Bible and the Big Picture Story Bible.

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We love reading the Big Picture Story Bible. It’s great at showing how the whole Bible points to Christ.

We love the Jesus Storybook Bible also. My daughter’s favorite story is the story of Creation.

We purchased the jesus storybook bible recently, the deluxe version with the audio cds. My 4 yr old LOVES listening to it in the car. I saw this book while we were deciding & it looked like a very nice book.

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