David and Goliath

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David and Goliath
ISBN 1 86024 507 2

Miracles of Jesus
ISBN 1 86024 504 8

Parables of JesuS
ISBN 1 86024 505 6

Jonah and the Big Fish
ISBN 1 86024 506

Text by Sue Hudson
Illustrated by Graham Kennedy
Distributed by Authentic Media
£4.99 each

This is a series of four action-packed children's Bible story books 'in living 3D' (when you use the free 3D Viewer which is provided fixed to the back cover).

I can comment on the first three of these books. They are well presented and have lively, colourful pictures which come to life when you look through the 3D spectacles. This makes the characters stand out and gives the page a silvery sheen and there's an impression of movement. Children would love them. The text is brief and to the point, telling the story as it is and giving a parent opportunity, or not, to elaborate on each page while reading to their child (who has the 3D viewer!).

The Parables of Jesus is in cartoon form and depicts two parables, the pearl of great price and the parable of the sower. The cartoon pictures are humorous, e.g. it shows the thorny weeds grabbing the wheat and throttling it by the neck with great glee. There is a brief explanation after each parable of the meaning as Jesus told it, with the Bible reference. However, the explanation given for the pearl of great price parable is not what the parable is saying. The meaning should be that we must give up all for this great salvation in Christ, whereas the text tells us Jesus gave up everything for us.

The two miracles told in the Miracles of Jesus are the feeding of the five thousand, and Jesus calming the storm. This book has a problem for me, because Jesus is pictured on each page, tall and handsome wearing pure white with a blue head covering. I personally don't think it is helpful to portray Jesus at all, especially looking so statuesque and quite the graven image.

Jean MacGregor,
married with four grown-up children, and a member of Cauldwell Hall Road Baptist Church in Ipswich, where she teaches a Sunday School class and helps run a
children's Friday Club

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