ZONDERKIDZ

My Learn to Read Bible

Copyright 2013 by Tracy Harrast
Illustrations 2013 by Christine M. Schneider
Requests for information should be addressed to:
Zondervan, 5300 Patterson Ave SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harrast, Tracy L.
My learn to read Bible : stories in words and pictures / Tracy L. Harrast.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-310-72740-8
1. Bible stories, English. I. Title.
BS551.3.H3545 2013
220.95.05dc23
2012035719
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible,
New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.
Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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Zonderkidz is a trademark of Zondervan.
Editor: Barbara Herndon
Design and art direction: Kris Nelson
Text composition: Matthew Van Zomeren
Printed in China
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To my familyRobin, Amy, Lauren, and Ryan.

You are my

. You fill my

with

treasure

It makes me

world

that you
happy

.
love

in the
walk

.
light

TH

With peace and

to
love

everywhere,
children

especially my little bookworm, Emmeline.

CMS

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A Note to
Moms and Dads

he first time you travel through this book

with your children, you may need to be
the one who reads the text and a few of the
words under the pictures in the text.
Next time, just sit back and be the audience! Your
children will be thrilled by how easy it is to read
to you for a change.
The truth identified after each story helps your
children think beyond details of the story to what it
teaches. Emphasize that there are many lessons to
learn from each Bible event. In fact, the Holy Spirit
can teach us additional truths every time we reread
a Bible story.
Reading with you may be your childrens best
memories. So lift them onto your lap and enjoy
helping them get to know God by reading these
stories adapted from his holy Word.

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Find and Read

Words and Pictures

Commandments

10

afraid

angel

army

axe

baby

baby Jesus

basket

baskets

Bible

birds

boat

boats

bread

camels

chariot

chariots

children

city

cities

cloud

clouds

coat

coats

cows

cross

cry

desert

do not

dog

donkey

donkeys

door

doors

down

dream

drink

ear

earth

eat

egypt

eyes

fire

fish

flies

flowers

food

foot

feet

frogs

fruit

garden

giant

giants

go

ground

hair

hand

hands

happy

heart

hearts

heaven

helmet

horses

house

inn

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angels

animals

ark

ark (cov)

armor

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israelites

jail

jar

jars

Jesus

king

light

lion

lions

love

mad

man

men

money

moon

mountain

nails

net

nets

night

people

Pharaoh

pigs

pray

queen

rain

right

river

road

rock

roof

sad

salt

servant

servants

sheep

shepherd

shepherds

sick

sing

snake

snakes

staff

stairs

star

stars

statue

stone

stones

stop

storm

strong

sun

sword

swords

table

temple

tent

tomb

tombs

tower

treasure

tree

trees

trumpet

trumpets

up

walk

wall

walls

water

wind

woman

women

world

worship

wrong

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old testament

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the start of the World

genesis 1

ong ago God said, Let there be

, and there was

light

. The next day he made the sky. On the

3rd day, God

light

third

made dry

, plants,
ground

put the

, and
flowers

and
sun

. The

4th day he

trees

in the sky. On the

moon

up

fourth

5th day,
fifth

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God made

that swim in the

fish

and
water

in the sky. He made more

birds

and then a
animals

on the

that fly

and a
man

woman

6th day. All that he made was very good.

sixth

God made the world!

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the First Man and Woman

genesis 2:7 8, 18, 22 25

he very st
first

dust of the

was Adam. God made him out of the

man

. Adam lived in a pretty

ground

called the

. It was
garden

of Eden. God said, It is not good for the

garden

to be alone. So God made a

man

to be with him.
woman

Her name was Eve. Adam and Eve were

.
happy

God does not want us to feel alone.

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A snake lies to eve

genesis 3:1 6, 23

od told Adam and Eve,

the
Do not

the

in the middle of the

tree

eat

from
fruit

. The devil turned into

garden

the shape of a

and talked to Eve. He told Eve it was

snake

good to

the
eat

from that
fruit

. The
tree

was
snake

lying! But Eve believed him. She chose to

eat

the

and then gave some to Adam to

fruit

.
eat

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God was

because they did not obey him. So Adam

sad

and Eve had to leave the

.
garden

The devil tells lies.

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the First Rainbow

genesis 6:5 8:17

fter a while,

in the
people

became so bad that

world

every thought they had was evil. God was very

.
sad

But there was

1
one

, Noah, who followed God. God

man

told Noah to build a big

. Then God sent at least

ark

of every

into the
animal

two

. After that, it
ark

so much
rained

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that

covered the
water

. But God kept Noah, his family,

earth

and the

safe in the
animals

never

. God promised that it would

ark

that much again. He put a rainbow in the sky as

rain

a reminder of his promise.

Rainbows remind us that God promised not

to cover the whole world with water again.

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A tower to Heaven
genesis 11:1 9

hen

first lived on the

people

new and all

, everything was
earth

spoke the same language. When they

people

learned to make bricks, they became proud. They tried to

build a

that would reach

tower

to
up

want them to build the

heaven

. To
tower

. God did not

them, he changed
stop

their languages. They could not understand each other.

So the building came to a

. When a
stop

babbles,
baby

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no one understands him. No one understood the

people

when they talked, so they called the

Babel.
city

God wants us to be humble.

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look at the stars

genesis 15:5 6; 18:10 12; 21:1 3

od told a

named Abraham to look

man

at the
up

. There were too many to count! God said

stars

Abraham would have that many

in his family.
children

Abraham believed what God said. Abrahams wife was

Sarah. When she heard that she would have a

, she
baby

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laughed. She was an old

. How could she have a

woman

But God kept his promise. When Sarah was

?
baby

90 years
ninety

old, she had a

named Isaac.
baby

God keeps his promises.

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