I know I had a children's Bible but don't recall much about it. It was a big storybook with lots of pictures.
The Noah's Ark story was told to us without the unseemly parts being emphasized when I was in Catechism and when it was read to me out of the book I mention above. Noah's Ark was about saving the animals while God did his Etch-A-Sketch version of cleansing the world of the bad things but keeping the animals. Very kid friendly in it's telling. That's the one that stands out the most...probably second is Jonah and the whale. And then, of course, the manger scene with all the animals and angels and kings being there for the birth. The star in the east and gifts and it all being very pastoral. Animals always got me.
As a young kid I don't recall anyone actually reading the words from an actual Bible...only a more Disneyesque version.
Of course when I was a kid the mass was in Latin so I didn't have a clue what they were saying anyway. Nor did I care. I just learned how to sit, stand, kneel and say the scripted responses.
The Noah's Ark story was told to us without the unseemly parts being emphasized when I was in Catechism and when it was read to me out of the book I mention above. Noah's Ark was about saving the animals while God did his Etch-A-Sketch version of cleansing the world of the bad things but keeping the animals. Very kid friendly in it's telling. That's the one that stands out the most...probably second is Jonah and the whale. And then, of course, the manger scene with all the animals and angels and kings being there for the birth. The star in the east and gifts and it all being very pastoral. Animals always got me.
As a young kid I don't recall anyone actually reading the words from an actual Bible...only a more Disneyesque version.
Of course when I was a kid the mass was in Latin so I didn't have a clue what they were saying anyway. Nor did I care. I just learned how to sit, stand, kneel and say the scripted responses.
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius