Review: Children's Bible Comic Book
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2013
I have to say that I was torn on the rating to give this book. I will openly say that the illustrations themselves were very well-drawn! Beautiful! Truthfully the comic pictures themselves at least made this a 3-star review. The two biggest problems I had were about the text and content. I did look at the first page or two when I purchased the book. I had hoped it would be something my kids would like. Unfortunately, once I downloaded the book I was very disappointed. The stories were breif and rather old to be a "children's book." I was hoping my 5 and 6 year olds would get to enjoy it. But I just don't think stories about killing (no matter how much they actually appear in the Bible) are appropriate for children. Teens and young adults, yes. Kids, no. To make matters worse, once the book is on the actual Kindle, you cannot read the text without squinting and straining. The text is in the pictures, so it doesn't matter how much you want to increase the font. It won't enlarge. As parents reading it to our kids or for kids reading it, it was too much strain to try to make out the words. Of course, I was somewhat glad of that after the stories. I, too, will be deleting this one from my collection. I give the author huge kudos on beautiful art! It really is beautiful, but I don't think it's for children (teens and YA, sure) and there needs to be an option to pull up the text separately for people like me with very poor eyesight. Of course that is just a problem with illustrated ebooks, not the author's fault. Still, it does make the book harder to read and enjoy. It was a brave choice to do a comic. I had so much hope it would be awesome! Especially after the awesome cover art and first few pages. But, in the end, I think the category is misleading and the book is hard to read on a traditional Kindle. Maybe print-on-demand might be a better book format.