Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #960439 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-31
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 3
• Binding: Audio CD

Customer Reviews

Inappropriate and Irrelevant
This book was bought as a gift for my 8 year old son. He attends a C of E school, although we are not as a family regular church goers. As he showed little interest in the book himself, I decided to read it. I'm glad I did!

I found the style of writing generally to be quite poor, and in many places confusing; even as an adult I found it difficult to make out precisely what some of the stories were about! I also found the actual content of the stories to be inappropriate in many cases. For example, the very first story in the book tells of a man getting his wife's female servant pregnant, and later casting her and the child out of his household when he and his wife had a child of their own, supposedly as a blessing from God.

Many other stories contain themes of people dying horrible and instantaneous deaths because God is angry with them. Its just not the kind of thing I want my 8 year old reading and digesting as - quite literally - Gospel truth.

After each story is a section called Growing Time, which gives a brief resume of the story you have just read, along with some sometimes entirely inaccurate "facts", some suggestions about how the morals of the story might apply to the child's own life, and some ideas for things to pray about. This section seemed largely irrelevant, and in some cases dangerously misleading: The instruction that it is a child's duty to obey any adult in authority, regardless of the child's own feelings, seems to promote at least the potential for disasterous consequences.

On a positive note, the book does have beautiful illustrations throughout. However, I'm afraid that alone just wasn't enough for this book to make it on to my son's bookshelf. I think its awful, and I would class it as verging on religious propaganda.