Children's ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
The Children's Bible: Stories from the Old and New Testaments
Fiona Tulloch, Tracey Kelly & Frances Evans · 2022
🎙 Narrated by Sarah Ovens
73/100
👍 Worth It
This is the real deal for a family wanting one solid collection: nearly five hours covering both Testaments, with 'did you know' segments woven in that actually add educational value beyond just retelling stories. Sarah Ovens' narration holds up well across that long runtime, so it's genuinely worth the listen. Just know it includes the Crucifixion and Samson and Delilah, handled in a family-appropriate way but worth previewing if your child is on the younger end of the 6-10 range.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Includes the Crucifixion and the Samson-and-Delilah story; presented in a family-appropriate, non-graphic register but worth a parental preview for younger kids.. We still scored it 73; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: good Single narrator (Sarah Ovens) sustains quality across a substantial ~4h46m runtime.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety75
Substance / usefulness80
Craft & writing78
Originality62
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers62
Age-fit78
Human-eye read75
Penny’s verdict73
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