I've been reading the Jesus Storybook Bible with my little boy. Sally Lloyd-Jones sat under Tim Keller, as she writes in her acknowledgments. Anyone familiar with his work can see his influence. The book is fantastic overall. It's appropriate for ages 4-8, about Kindergarten to 3rd grade. This book is really good news. It avoids the Moral Therapeutic Deism so popular in lots of Children's and Youth Ministry materials. This book isn't one that tells you to be good or that God just wants you to be happy. It tell the good news about what God is doing in the world, his "Secret Rescue Plan." Of course, we are invited to take part and so we get our ethics. And of course God is putting the world right so that we can be happy. But all of those things you are the result of God's action in the world. Lloyd-Jones takes each story and ties it to Jesus, this earning the title The *Jesus* Storybook Bible. Throughout the book God is pictures as good and benevolent and patient. Over and over we hear of his "Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love." His anger is never mentioned, even in places we might expect, like the Flood or the Exodus. So, when God's anger is mentioned in connection with the crucifixion it is very jarring and out of place. She writes, "The full force of the storm of God's fierce anger at sin was coming down. On his own Son. Instead of his people. It was the only way God could destroy sin, and not destroy his children whose hearts were filled with sin." I do not understand the crucifixion through Penal Substitutionary Atonement and it is completely contrary to the tenor of the rest of the book. As such, I count this an unfortunate passage. Still, overall the theology is good, the illustrations are beautiful, and the language is both accessible and poetic.