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Lifestyle/Technology | A long apprenticeship prepared Sally Lloyd-Jones to create stories pitched for children and centered on God | Susan Olasky

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Sally Lloyd-Jones wanted to write a children's story Bible where "God is the hero"—rather than the typical kind that strings together moral tales featuring exemplary people. "We go to the Bible for grace, and comfort, and strength," she says. And she wanted children to find those qualities in a Bible aimed at them.

The result is The Jesus Storybook Bible, which has sold over 100,000 copies since publication in March 2007. I love its brightly illustrated pages and particularly the way its 44 stories tell what Lloyd-Jones calls the "through story" of creation, fall, and redemption: "There are some [stories] you just have to have, don't you? . . . I had to be very clear in my own mind. Each story had to paint a picture of Jesus. Then I would pray about which ones to put in."

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November 01, 2008, Vol. 23, No. 22

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