FICTION AND BIOGRAPHIES

Bible-based stories from Bob Hartman

Bob’s passion is to teach the Bible in a way that helps kids want to read its stories time and time again. Not just because the stories are ‘good for you’ but because they are creative, clever and so enthralling that kids can’t help themselves. Using characters that may have been around, Bob tells Bible stories from their perspective in a fun way.

For older children (7-12s)

• The Big Pig Stampede
• Best Mates
• Best Mates too!
• New Testament tales, the unauthorised version
• Old Testament tales, the unauthorised version
• More Bible tales, the unauthorised version
• Complete Bible Baddies

For younger children (3-7s)

• Off the Wall Bible Tales
• The Noisy Stable
• Pheww!! Elisha, the brothers and the fantastically full jars
• Shhhh!! Miriam, the baby and the secret boat
• Zzzzz!! Samuel, the night and the curious calling voice
• Yummm!! Elijah, the boy and the amazing feast

Fiction for 5-8s from Scripture Union

• Deadly Emily
• The other kitten
• Friska my friend
• Matthew and the mystery messages

See book details at www.scriptureunion.org.uk

Fiction for 8-11s from Dernier Publishing

• A pennyworth of peppermints
• The birthday shoes
• I want to be an airline pilot
• Living in hope
• Under the tamarind tree
• The treasure hunt
• Mystery in the snow
• Deepest darkness

See book details at www.dernierpublishing.com

Fiction for 8-11s from Scripture Union

• Space invaders
• Runaway train
• River rapids
• Hall of mirrors
• Fire by night
• The book of secrets
• The book of good and evil
• The book of life
• The scarlet cord
• No angel
• Jack and the wardrobe
• Star of light
• The mystery of pheasant cottage
• Treasures of the snow
• The Tanglewood’s secret
• Where dolphins race with rainbows
• Where the river begins

See book details at www.scriptureunion.org.uk

Fiction for 12-16s from Dernier Publishing

• Beech Bank girls every girl has a story
• Beech Bank girls making a difference
• Beech Bank girls Christmas is coming
• The only way
• London’s gone

See book details at www.dernierpublishing.com

Fiction for 12-16s from Scripture Union 

• I needed a neighbour
• Nothing else matters
• A captive in Rome
• Rome in flames
• The edge of the empire
• No love lost
• No means no
• Fabulous Phoebe
• Phoebe’s fortune
• Phoebe finds her feet
• The victor

See book details at www.scriptureunion.org.uk

Biographies from Bridge-Logos

2015 conference recommendation from Olly & Helen Goldenberg

•  1: Kathryn Kuhlman
•  2: Smith Wigglesworth
•  3: John Alexander
•  4: Maria Woodworth-Etter
•  5: Evan Roberts
•  6: Charles Parkham
•  7: William Seymour

Biographies from Christian Focus

Sue says: These books have been around a while but are good introductions to the stories of Christians to tell to younger children or to give to confident readers

•  Ten boys who changed the world: David Livingstone, Nicky Cruz, Brother Andrew, George Muller, William Carey, John Newton, Adoniram Judson, Billy Graham, Luis Palau, Eric Liddell
• Ten girls who changed the world: Mary Slessor, Corrie Ten Boom, Granny Brand, Joni Eareckson, Gladys Aylward, Jackie Pullinger, Amy Carmichael, Elisabeth Fry, Catherine Booth, Isobel Kahn
• Ten boys who made history: Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Rutherford, DL Moody, Martin Lloyd-Jones, AW Tozer, John Owen, Robert Murray McCheyne, Billy Sunday, George Whitfield
• Ten girls who made history: Ida Scudder, Betty Green, Jeanette Li, Mary Jane Kinnaird, Bessy Adams, Emma Dryer, Lottie Moon, Florence Nightingale, Henrietta Mears, Elisabeth Elliot
• Ten boys who made a difference: Augustine, Knox, Luther, Calvin, Tyndale, Latimer, Hus, Zwingli, Chalmers, Shaftesbury
• Ten girls who made a difference: Monica Thagaste, Katherine Luther, Susanna Wesley,  Judson, Maria Taylor, Susannah Spurgeon, Bethan Lloyd-Jones, Edith Schaeffer, Dabrina Wurmbrand, Ruth Bell Graham
• Ten boys who used their talents: JS Bach, Paul Brand, John Bunyan, James Clerk Maxwell, Wilfred Grenfell, CS Lewis, Samuel Morse, Ghillean Prance, CT Studd, George Washington
• Ten girls who used their talents: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mildred Cable, Sarah Edwards, Annie Lawson, Maureen McKenna, Katie Ann Mackinnon, Selina Countess of Huntingdon, Helen Roseveare, Patricia StJohn, Mary Verghese
• Ten boys who didn’t give in: Polycarp, Alban, John Oldcastle, Cranmer, George Wishart, James Chambers, Dietrich Bonhoffer, Nate Saint, Ivan Moiseyev, Graham Staines
• Ten girls who didn’t give in: Blandina, Perpetua, Lady Jane Grey, Anne Askew, Lysken Dirks, Marion Harvey, Margaret Wilson, Judith Weinberg, Betty Stam, Esther John
• Adventure and faith: Martin Luther, David Brainerd, William King, Brother Andrew, Nehemiah, Stephen
• Danger and dedication: William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, Jonathan Goforth, Bruce F Hunt, Moses, Paul
• Fearless and faithful: Elizabeth Welch, Mary Slessor, Mildred Cable, Gladys Aylward, Ruth, Abigail
• Strength and devotion: Katherine von Bora, Fidelia Fiske, Amy Carmichael, Lillian Dickson, Deborah, Jehosheba

Christian heroes: then and now

Biographies from YWAM US

Sue says: These books are longer stories – one person per book- and are more suitable for children 8+.

• Brother Andrew: God’s secret agent
• Gladys Aylward: the adventure of a lifetime
• David Bussau: facing the world
• William Carey: obliged to go
• Amy Carmichael: rescuer of precious gems
• Jacob Deschazer: forgive your enemies
• Jim Elliot: one great purpose
• Betty Greene: wings to serve
• CS Lewis: master storyteller
• Eric Liddell: something greater than gold
• David Livingstone: Africa’s trailblazer
• George Muller: the guardian of Bristol’s orphans
• Rachel Saint: a star of the jungle
• Mary Slessor: forward  into Calabar
• CT Studd: no retreat
• Hudson Taylor: deep in the heart of China
• Corrie Ten Boom: keeper of the angel’s den
• Cameron Townsend: God’s news in every language
• John Wesley: the world, his parish
• John Williams: messenger of peace