Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Children’s Bibles in America
Russell W. Dalton · 2015
78/100
👍 Worth It
Dalton's idea of using Noah as a single lens through which to read 400 children's Bibles and 200 years of American religious culture is elegant and genuinely illuminating. Multiple peer-reviewed venues praised it, and the research base is impressively wide. It will not appeal to general readers, but for religious educators, seminary faculty, or anyone studying how faith is transmitted to children, this is careful and important scholarship.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety98
substance84
craft76
originality82
accuracy88
hype80
age-fit60
human-eye74
Penny’s verdict78
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