Customer Reviews

A Child's Garden of Torah: A Read-Aloud Bedtime Bible

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What a great book for young children! My 4 year old really enjoys the stories. They are written in a "biblical" tone with simple language. The stories inspire my child to think and ask questions. On the negative side, I wish the illustrations were in color. The stories are not very visually appealing for small children.

As children's books rely on both word and image, this book falls short in captivating a child's interest visually. While the text is written in an appropriate format, the presentation is, in a word, bland. The cover does not represent the illustration content of the book. While the cover is in color and mildy interesting, the remainder of the illustrations are pen and ink drawings that weaken its presentation, especially when sharing with younger children.

I love reading this book to my kids at night. The narrations are accessibly simple - very few sentences are more than one line long - and yet retain the depth and layered meaning of the original stories. The questions are thought-provoking for adults as well as children. I wish the author would write volumes II, III, etc.

I was hoping for a really good read aloud Torah book for my two children, both under the age of six. However, the book is extremely basic and "babyish" in the words of my older daughter. The pictures, (while they do make me somewhat nostalgic for the seventies) do not draw the kids in to the stories at all, although my kids may be more into fancy artwork than some...The writing does make it easier for ME to understand the Torah stories, but are not intriguing to my kids. Overall, I wished that there had been a store in which I could peruse a couple of books on the Torah for children, because I doubt that I would have bought this one. I'll be buying another one soon.

I bought this book for my grandson, but I enjoy and love the book! It is an excellent book and penned so greatly. It has "hearing questions" and "imagining questions" at the end of each section so that it is more than just a collection of children's Bible stories; it also makes you think about the deeper meaning of the Bible accounts. The illustrations are precious too. I recommend this little book for all who love the Torah, whether Jewish, Messianic Jewish, Messianic Gentile, or Christian, and want to share Torah with their children.

I was disappointed in the quality of the printing of the first few pages of this book. It is not a copy I would have picked up in a store; I would have looked for a better copy (I did get this new from Amazon).

I enjoy this book.It's read to talk to your class about some of the bible stories. I use it in my classroom for my boards I hang up.The kids will like it.