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Moses in the Bulrushes (Bible Stories (Paperback Franklin Watts))

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We read this book to three- and four-year-olds in Sunday school and the beautiful illustrations easily captured their attention. My co-teacher and I teared up at the illustration of Moses's mother after she left her baby in the bullrushes--easily the best rendition I've ever seen of her heartbreak. The authors don't whitewash the story in text or pictures, but their simple language makes it easier as an adult to share the story with small children. I'm buying it for my kids at home because I liked it that much.

I think this and the other Bible story books by Mary Auld are some of the best there are. They stay very close to the biblical text while still making the story accessible for children. The artwork is beautiful and conveys the sense of the culture and time which I think is important -- ie. the people in the drawings don't look like white Northern Europeans.

I expected a lot more out of this book than I got. The illustrations are rather stilted, and the text lends nothing more to the story than I could have gotten out of an adult bible. What I was looking for was a telling of the story of Moses that would be more accessible for children. The author simply cut and pasted out of her bible, it seems to me.