Old Testament

Stories inside

Three example books from this collection. Every story is written fresh from your own prompt, so no two families end up with the same one.

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  Story 01

  Noah and the Great Flood

  Building something enormous because God asked, long before the first raindrop.

  Noah spent years building a boat on dry ground while his neighbours watched and laughed. That is the part children remember, and it is the part that makes the story worth telling: doing the right thing long before anyone else can see why.

  Your child works alongside him. Carrying planks in the heat, counting the animals up the ramp two by two, on deck when the first drop finally lands. Their face comes from the photos you upload, so the child in the illustrations is unmistakably yours.

  The flood itself is handled gently. The water rises, the ark holds, and the story lands where it should, on a dove, an olive branch, and a sky full of colour that means a promise.

  What it draws on

  Building the ark, loading the animals, forty days aboard, and the rainbow after.

  Your child's part

  Noah's helper from the first plank to the last, named on every page.

  Start their story

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  Story 02

  David and the Giant

  Facing something far larger than you are, with five smooth stones and steady faith.

  Every child knows the feeling of being the smallest one in the room. David was the youngest of eight brothers, sent to the front line with bread and cheese, and nobody expected anything of him at all.

  This is the story of what he did anyway. Your child is beside him in the riverbed choosing the five stones, on the ridge while the armies shout, and close enough to see that he is not afraid. The valley, the armour that does not fit, the sling: it is all here, drawn in the art style you pick.

  It is a good book for a child facing something too big for them, and parents tend to reach for it around a first day, a hospital visit, or a week that is not going well.

  What it draws on

  The errand to the front, the borrowed armour, the five stones, and what David says before he throws.

  Your child's part

  At David's shoulder through all of it, and the one who hands him the stones.

  Start their story

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  Story 03

  Daniel and the Lions

  A night in the lions' den, and a morning that proves who was keeping watch.

  Daniel kept praying at his window three times a day, knowing exactly what it would cost him. The law had been written specifically to catch him, and it did.

  What follows is one long night underground, and it is worth staying in rather than rushing past. Your child sits in the dark while the lions settle, and the illustrations keep the animals calm and heavy-eyed, closer to sleeping cats than to anything frightening.

  Then the stone moves, the king calls down, and the light comes in. Children ask for this one again at bedtime, which is usually a sign it landed.

  What it draws on

  The window, the trap, the night in the den, and the king running to the stone at first light.

  Your child's part

  Keeping watch beside Daniel until morning.

  Start their story