Bible for children

More image focused variations, often made for children aged 3-6, rely less on words to convey a message and prominently feature drawings and artistic interpretations of the Bible.

[7] While this may have been the first official text published in the US, the simple, narrative style seen in children's Bibles today dates back to the work of Peter Comestor in the late twelfth century: Historia Scholastica.

[7] In 1934 Lenore Cohen's work: Bible Tales for Very Young Children was published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

When he was the headmaster of the Collége de Rive in Calvinist, Geneva, he wrote Dialogorum Sacrorum Libri Quatuor as a way to introduce the schoolboys at his institution to Biblical texts.

It was written by Anne de Graaf and illustrated by José Pérez Montero.

[11] Another recent publication is the Adventure Bible Storybook written by Catherine DeVries and illustrated by Jim Madsen.

[19] When introducing the Bible to children, Jewish authors departed from teaching directly from the full Bible text and chose stories that were digestible for children, but authors did not include additional stories.

[20] Published in 2020 by DK Children, it details key characters and stories from the Hebrew Bible.