By Doug Mauss
More than two hundred Bible stories retold as a full-length comic, drawn in dynamic superhero-style panels for the older child who's outgrown the picture-book versions.
A comic-book Bible aimed at the child who's decided Bibles are for little ones. Sergio Cariello, who's drawn for the major comic houses, illustrates more than two hundred stories in full panels, with speech bubbles, motion lines, and dramatic angles. Creation, the flood, David and Goliath, Daniel in the lions' den, the plagues, the life of Jesus, on through the early church. It's told from inside the Christian faith, the way a believing Sunday school tells these stories, not as a neutral survey of religions. And it's a thick, absorbing book a nine-year-old will read on their own, for the pull of the art and the pace.
The picture-book bibles are a non-starter for an older child, and this is what you reach for instead. The comic format does the work: the stories move, the art is dynamic, and a child who loves graphic novels will pick it up for fun rather than duty. It covers so much of the Bible in narrative order that it works as a genuine reading project, the kind a school-age child settles into for weeks. If your child wants action and a real story, this is the natural pick on the shelf.