The Read and Share Bible: The Jesus Series, Life and Miracles DVD

(review by Julie)
I recently received the Read and Share Bible: The Jesus Series, Life and Miracles DVD from Thomas Nelson Publishing to review it and unfortunately, I'm not very impressed.

I was excited about letting my two year old watch some bible stories, but the animation was stiff and the characters were monotone and almost mechanical. The Bible has some really exciting stories with a lot of drama- why make it rigid and expressionless?  After seeing a lot of PBS kids programming lately, I felt like this DVD was second class. I'm just so sad that this DVD ended up boring.

The stories seem to be consistent with the bible, which is great.  However it tried to cover large time periods of Jesus' life with vague pictures and minimal voice-over, so I'm not sure my son got a lot of Bible story knowledge. That being said, my son said he liked it, but then, he's never met a cartoon he didn't like.

The DVD has coloring sheets, but it's just 8 pages and 2 of them are too random to be applicable (a daisy in a pot?)

I give it 1.5 stars and I don't suggest you buy it.  Just pick up a bible and read to your kids.

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