Copyright © 1995, 1996, 1998, 2014 by Biblica, Inc.® The New International Reader's Version (NIrV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English.
The authors describe it as a special edition of the NIV written at a third grade reading level.
[2] Zondervan and HarperCollins published a children's version of this text in 2011,[3] targeted at four to seven year olds and featuring the characters of the Berenstain Bears.
[4] According to the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA), the NIrV is the eighth on the list of best-selling English Bible translations.
Wherever possible, the NIrV uses the text of the NIV but adapts it for reading at a third-grade level (roughly ages 8-9).