By Sally Lloyd-Jones
The full text of the beloved Jesus Storybook Bible, redesigned for older readers without its picture-book illustrations — the whole Bible told as one continuous story, every part leaning toward the baby at its center.
This is the complete text of Sally Lloyd-Jones's Jesus Storybook Bible, redesigned for teens and adults without its picture-book illustrations, as a keepsake to give and keep. It carries the whole sweep of the Bible as a single story: the making of the world, people turning away, a rescue promised again and again, and at the center a baby who turns out to be the rescue. What holds it together is that every chapter, from Noah to David to the manger, reaches toward Jesus, so it reads as one story rather than a stack of separate tales. Lloyd-Jones writes tenderly and plainly, more like a bedtime story about being loved no matter what than a lesson. It reads aloud beautifully and is made to be grown into, given at the start of a life and read for years after.
What sets this telling apart from other children's Bibles is that it isn't a set of separate stories at all. Lloyd-Jones threads the whole book onto one line, so Noah and David and the manger arrive as chapters of a single rescue rather than lessons that end and reset. Underneath every chapter is the same reassurance: God's love doesn't hang on being good enough, which is a steadying thing to hand a child. And because this edition sets the words down without the picture-book illustrations, it works as a read-aloud that carries for years, and a family that already shares this faith will recognize the text they trust.