{"id":326,"date":"2016-07-29T13:44:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namethathymn.com\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2016-07-29T13:44:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T13:44:18","slug":"review-of-the-look-and-tell-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/review-of-the-look-and-tell-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of the Look and Tell Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"The Look and Tell Bible<\/a> is\u00a0a board book\u00a0designed by Make Believe Ideas, Ltd. in\u00a0the UK and published in the United States by Thomas Nelson. If you’ve never read a book by Make Believe Ideas, you’re in for a treat. This isn’t the first book published by Make Believe and Thomas Nelson; if you look on Amazon<\/a> you’ll see many more, including a great ABC Alphabet Book<\/a> and Camilla the Cupcake Fairy<\/a>. While Thomas Nelson is a Christian publisher,\u00a0just about anyone will love how adorable and innovative their books are.<\/p>\n

The Look and Tell Bible, of course, is a\u00a0book for Christians.\u00a0It was released in the UK back in April but\u00a0is being released in the US this month (July 2016) with a new cover and “Americanized” writing. The book\u00a0measures about 9″ by 9″. The cover says that it’s designed for children 3+, but it’s really\u00a0suitable for children from 1-4.<\/p>\n

Just looking at the book, I knew that it would become one of my go-to books as my daughter learns to identify objects and eventually learns to read. Each pair of two pages represents a Bible story, such as the story of Joseph and his coat, Daniel in the Lion’s Den, the birth of Jesus, the feeding of the 5000, and so on.\u00a0As the book is open, the page to the left shows 5-7 adorable color cartoon illustrations of various objects and their names. To the right is about 50-60 words of writing, interspersed with the illustrations.<\/p>\n

You read it like a rebus. You read the words and then when you hit a picture, you can ask your child to tell you what it is. It’s a brilliant way to help your child transition from the time\u00a0where he’s pointing at objects to a time\u00a0when he can actually sit down and read with you. It works on so many levels–you can use it as a picture book with a young toddler to identify objects, or for an older child you can have her read the actual words with you and have a little fun matching the object to the picture.<\/p>\n

The book is solid throughout and\u00a0the colors are bright and cheery. It’s a really well produced book–the pages are all board book-thick, and the individual illustrations have a glossy, ever so slightly embossed feel about them. The cover itself is beautiful as well, with large embossed\u00a0pictures\u00a0of David and Goliath.<\/p>\n

This is one that will definitely be used time and time again. Highly recommended. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Look and Tell Bible is\u00a0a board book\u00a0designed by Make Believe Ideas, Ltd. in\u00a0the UK and published in the United States by Thomas Nelson. If you’ve never read a book by Make Believe Ideas, you’re in for a treat. This isn’t the first book published by Make Believe and Thomas Nelson; if you look on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/namethathymn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}