A Book Review: Alby's Amazing Book

As a dad, I am always looking for a good children's book that will help teach my son to treasure Christ and His Word.  So when I had the chance to read and review Alby's Amazing Book, I jumped at the opportunity.  I found the book to be well-written and illustrated.

It is a short little book (a sentence or less per page) written about the main character, Alby, and his love for stories about adventures.  The book recounts Alby's love for a very special book that contains lots of stories about lots of different adventures.  When you come to the end, you find that the book Alby loves so much is the Bible.

The purpose of the book is to develop within children a realization that the Bible contains exciting stories and is written to us by the God of the universe.  This is a good goal and the book seems to accomplish what it sets out to do.

I had no problem with the book in anything that it contains.  There may be a couple of additional things I wish it had emphasized, but it is difficult to quibble over those things when talking about such a short little book.  I would love to see Alby discover that the Bible is not just a collection of short stories, but ultimately one big story.  Maybe that would be an idea for a follow up book.

Overall I think the book is well done.  I would recommend it to parents wanting to introduce a love for the Bible to small children.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review of the book as a part of the Cross Focused Reviews program.