Heath
Puritan Board Freshman
My oldest son is 2½ years old and he loves books. In an effort to balance his "reading" between the normal fair and Christian books I am trying to make some key purchases but I am having trouble. There is almost nothing in the local stores that seems even remotely worth picking up and there are so many opinions in Amazon reviews I have no idea what to trust. The last one I bought, "Dangerous Journey," seems great but after a few chapters we decided it was to much and we are putting it up for another year or two. We have a ~18 month old boy right behind him and another boy due in September so I am willing to make a good investment because I know we will be using them for many years. My wife and I went to a few Children Desiring God conferences (all before we had children funny enough) and I wish now I had bought everything they had in the conference bookstore.
What we already have that we really like:
Books we already have that we're on the fence about:
We have a few more I can't remember but a lot of them are standard bookstore fare that we have been given and aren't in love with.
I don't know that there are many things that warm my heart more than hearing him ask us to read him a certain bible story by name. They are mostly the obvious ones, "Read Jonah Daddy" or "Read Noah" or "Read about the Tomb," and we want there to be more of that.
What we already have that we really like:
- Jesus Storybook Bible
- ESV Childrens Bible (Not quite there but he will look at the many pictures while you read the captions)
- Read-Aloud Bible Stories (Volumes 1 throuh 4) He loves these.
Books we already have that we're on the fence about:
- Bernstein Bears Bible Storybook (It came from Sams and the content seems solid but the people being bears is what makes me uncertain. That being said, he loves the Berinstein Bears and so it keeps his attention.)
- Thoughts to make your heart sing (From the Storybook Bible People. I haven't read through it completely so I am not 100% yet. He hasn't read much of it yet)
We have a few more I can't remember but a lot of them are standard bookstore fare that we have been given and aren't in love with.
I don't know that there are many things that warm my heart more than hearing him ask us to read him a certain bible story by name. They are mostly the obvious ones, "Read Jonah Daddy" or "Read Noah" or "Read about the Tomb," and we want there to be more of that.