Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
The Bible for Children
Ruth B. Bottigheimer · 2014
80/100
👍 Worth It
Bottigheimer's Yale-published, award-winning scholarship fills a genuinely overlooked corner of literary and religious history — how children's Bibles evolved, and whose values they encoded along the way. The comparative scope across Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish traditions gives it breadth that single-tradition studies lack. Academic prose means it's for scholars and serious religious educators rather than general readers.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance88
craft75
originality85
accuracy90
hype60
age-fit70
human-eye78
Penny’s verdict80
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