Customer Reviews

Run, Elijah! (Follow the Leader Stories)

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This book is wonderfully written and beautifully illustrated. It is the complete story of the Elijah 1 Kings told for kids but not dummied down for kids. It is really a great book. I look forward to getting other books from the Follow the Leader Series.

The illustrations in this book are wonderful, but the story is confusing at best. The author uses a clumsy style of poetry that mixes rhyming verses with non-rhyming verses making it very awkward to read aloud. Also, instead of focusing on one of the many stories concerning Elijah, it tries to cram all of them into too limited a space resulting in a jumbled up mess. My last complaint is in regard to some of the wording. I prefer to teach my children from the NKJV or KJV, but in the part of the story where Elijah is fed by the black birds, the author uses the translation that Elijah is brought food by an angel. Children who are already very familiar with the story of Elijah may be able to sift through this book and make something felicitous of it, but it would probably take a child who is far outside of the target audience's age range to do such. I don't recommend this book as bedtime story because of how poorly it is written, and I most adamantly do not recommend it as a teaching tool.

The entire Follow the Leader series is so good. They follow the Bible story very well. I love the way they are written, and the illustrations are incredible. I would highly recommend all of the books. I just wish there were more books in the series.