Mary Manz Simon is wonderful! My son has all of these books and they are his favorite. The easier level he could read easily in first grade and the second level he could easily read in second grade. I think he likes them for several reasons: they are fun, easy, repetitive, rhyming and familiar Bible stories. These books are great for building reader confidence. When we got the 8 level two books he read them all in 2 days, and asked for more!!!! HIGHLY RECOMENDED!!!

To put Mary Manz Simon's books into collections of four small stories each bound hardcover is a splendid idea. Our individual copies have been read frequently and are repaired and rescued several times over. We have been reading them for eleven years now and I am overjoyed to have a hardcover collection to continue with my two younger children. In our house these were truly their first books to read alone, before the Seuss books were even mastered. This collection contains Jesus and the fishermen, Jesus feeds the crowd, Mary and Martha, and the Good Samaritan. The pictures especially help to create the feelings and emotions for each story, and the combination of the limited words is clever and enjoyable.

Mary Manz Simon is wonderful! My son has all of these books and they are his favorite. The easier level he could read easily in first grade and the second level he could easily read in second grade. I think he likes them for several reasons: they are fun, easy, repetitive, rhyming and familiar Bible stories. These books are great for building reader confidence. When we got the 8 level two books he read them all in 2 days, and asked for more!!!! HIGHLY RECOMENDED!!!

I help teach the three and four year olds in junior church. They love for me to read these books to them. I have read several of them so many times that they can almost tell me the stories word for word.

Mary Manz Simon is wonderful! My son has all of these books and they are his favorite. The easier level he could read easily in first grade and the second level he could easily read in second grade. I think he likes them for several reasons: they are fun, easy, repetitive, rhyming and familiar Bible stories. These books are great for building reader confidence. When we got the 8 level two books he read them all in 2 days, and asked for more![.] HIGHLY RECOMENDED!...

Mary Manz Simon is wonderful! My son has all of these books and they are his favorite. The easier level he could read easily in first grade and the second level he could easily read in second grade. I think he likes them for several reasons: they are fun, easy, repetitive, rhyming and familiar Bible stories. These books are great for building reader confidence. When we got the 8 level two books he read them all in 2 days, and asked for more!!!! HIGHLY RECOMENDED!!!

Make time to enjoy this book. Once you start reading it, you won't want to put it down. The story takes you through the journey of a young man's life. His struggles to overcome his personal demon's is spell binding because it relates to any generation.

Music is his identity and saving grace that gets him through the daily survival of living on the streets of Brooklyn, NY. His choices take him through the war torn period of the 60's and cultural changes of music and drugs only to discover that it was what was inside of him that allowed him to prevail and understand what his life is all about.

This book is artistically graphic in describing the effects of
social issues and drugs. It leaves one pondering and hopeful that one can overcome any challenge by re-awakening the
human spirit that has sadly fallen asleep by the pressures of
society.

Dennis Jones has done a great job in capturing the feel of Brooklyn in the 60s. A coming-of-age story against the background of Rock & Roll. He made me feel like I was living through it with him. I can't wait for his second novel.

Dennis Jones has captured Brooklyn in the early 60's perfectly. It is a must read for anyone that grew up in Brooklyn, and a wonderful book to read for people that want to experience what it was like. Just open the cover and next thing you know your finishing the second chapter. A Great Great Book!

With the strange occurrences of: lost people in and around the Bermuda Triangle; the strange paintings on the walls of pyramids all over the world; the strange designs seen from the sky looking back at field or landscapes make you wonder are we alone. One could ask have we been visited before and are we still being visited or studied. What if we are not being visited on purpose, what if just a natural phenomenon that we are not aware of is opening a pathway between our world and another dimension. Or a worm hole opening and closing while connecting worlds that may be light years apart. "Earth Has Been Found" opens all these possibilities and then throws a alien life form that adapts itself to earth so well that man finds his very existence threatened.

The alien is not interested in communicating with man it only follows its instincts. Man on the other hand is in a hurry to find out as much as he can about his new found rival for planet dominance. The ending must be thought about and reflected on and then you will realize cleaverness of the writer in coming to that particular ending.

This work not only delivers a plot of world mayhem through an invading force of creatures, but it begs the reader to ponder the theological implications such things pose. The author cites an example of some 'entity' pulling airplanes from time and space as we know it such as we would grab a ladybug from a bush and then replacing it, possibly infecting it with some parasite just as the planes became infected with Xenos. The question it asks is that if we are not alone, who, or what, else is with us, causing this collision of worlds?

Cardboard characters, creepy cutouts--didn't believe a word by this facile film critic. Born Again a Holy Cow--ought to be illegal suggesting a sinister application. Identity not trowelled up like leeks. Take exception, award a sprig of spring onion found caught in laces of boot, press it in pages, ward off wards and weak wights.

Spirit informs like a gold glow, never interchangeable like multi-colored lights on a string. Seditious suggestion. Networks must be informed. Anchors enlisted. Nudes draped.

Waugh, Burgess but best also "Cards." Late Burgess left this out of his 100 list, and I had not yet read it when I discussed sustained narrative antic novels with him. This puzzles me. (I argued for Gravity, he plumped for V. Later in 100, he'd changed to Gravity. Egoist that I am, guess what I think. And, also, now I like V. Did he age well tho?)

Pungent, perhaps profound. Some peerless moments of exquisite conundrum. Disciplined prose, strongly flavored character motion, level evocation of REM unreality.

Inspiring. Worth writing tart poetry on its flyleaf. Don't not read now!

Actually Cards of Indentity is four books and a play. The "plot" involves a group of "psychologists" who take over a country home by mental tricks in order to hold a convention. Three of the books are 'papers' delivered at the convention. The play (which you will swear was written by Shakespeare) is the entertainment at the end of the convention. A must read.

I find that my young sons pay better attention when I read Bible stories from a book with good illustrations. This book's illustrations are colorful and engaging. But the stories are simplified, sometimes to the point of diminishing the story's intended message.

The stories are familiar, and the book is not a complete Bible. Struggling teen readers have read it like a "chapter book". Put it on a bookshelf with other books in a classroom or library and it will be pulled off and at least flipped through. It has also been chosen by adults who are emergent readers of English lacking the reading skills to delve into an NIV or Living Bible. The pictures look like animated drawings. Would make a nice gift for either type of reader.

We have this Bible and it's great to read to small children. It is written so that kids can understand it and the pictures are excellent.