This is a great book for boys and girls around upper elementary age and a little older. It really does bring "the Bible to life" for them. This book gets youth thinking about the Bible story they are hearing or have heard about before. What are they thinking, feeling, and wondering? What does it mean to them? It is a nice design with a spiral notebook style. This journal and sketchbook is full of Bible story devotions. They are given prompts for their journal writing and sketching area too. It is not just reading the Bible story. It is allowing for interaction by opening up discussions and allowing for questions. A time to wonder and discover their own ideas and thoughts about the story is sparked. This is an interesting way for children to study the Bible. It is great. They get to learn as well as be challenged. There are also a variety of Bible stories featured. They are not in order actually as you might expect, but I think it is giving a tasting of stories to encourage study.

This is an awesome children's book. It has lots of fun activities and teaches the Bible in easy to understand for a child.
The would you rather section is so much fun!

This is a great devotional. The approach is a really fun way to get kids interested in the Bible. I would definitely own this book! Thank you Netgalley for the free ebook to review.

Told in a story version for kids, waaaaaayyy more interesting, you know, and thrown into choices, I love this book. When asked about the stories in the Bible, I usually got stuck. How am I going to explain this to kids? But this book is a good tools.

And by challenging kids to choose, it makes them ponder upon God's love poured throughout the Bible itself. Thus making them love God more by living in His words.

This wasn’t for me. I was not expecting what I read. I am sure this would be a great tool for children to learn about the bible nonetheless.

I read this with my eight year old daughter and we both enjoyed it. We learned about a few of the lesser known Bible stories and got to discuss why we picked the option we picked. The stories did bounce around a bit and it would have had a better flow of they had gone in a bit of an order as some of the background got repetitive. Overall, it's a great book.

This is an incredible book for kids! I even sent it to my church children’s director. If you have more than one kiddo, I suggest getting two of them to use - would be a great homeschool book!

To be honest, I did not read the part that it was bible inspired when I requested this book, so I was surprised when I figured it out. But it was fun to read. It is good for younger kids to help them with their bible studies. But I expected more would you rathers.

This book is a wonderful devotional for upper elementary aged children. and could also be used in a classroom setting.

Thank you to NetGalley and publishers for allowing me to read an ARC of this book.

Our family is absolutely loving this book! Instead of just reading a Bible Story, the questions are opening up some great discussions!

In full transparency, I didn't read each devotion in the book, but chose a few at random. Well written with kid-friendly parallels, this would be great for use at home or adapted for a Sunday School class. The Would You Rather questions offer great launch points for honest discussion or at least personal introspection and the sketch it prompts offer a way for kids to make the story their own. My only comment would be that I'm not sure my own kids would have their bibles open while reading through, so I would have preferred that the scriptures- not just the references - were included in the text. Additionally, I'm sure it's a visually appealing book, but it's hard to judge on a Kindle. I'll be ordering a copy for ourselves.

I think is this a really unique way to get children involved in their faith journeys. It has some really interesting prompts and can also lead to some really good discussions between parents and kids.

Would You Rather by Matt Koceich is a fun, interactive journal that brings stories from the Bible to life for children. Would You Rather takes two stories from the Bible, explains them well and always draws a conclusion for the application for the children. The main idea is, that children should "choose" would they rather have this or that thing happen to them -- things that happened in the Bible.

As a Sunday School teacher, I loved this book and I think this would be a great one to use in Sunday School as well as home. The stories are well told and there is always the application part, which I loved. To be honest, the way these stories are told and the applications are drawn, is good for the adults to read too! I think this is a book more for the adventurous kids than others. The "Would You Rather" parts were sometimes a little intense but nothing too bad. All in all, this was a fun read and I think this will be a fun read for kids too.

Readers will not be able to RESIST bible stories after seeing this book! With an engaging "would you rather" question at the beginning of each section readers will be at full attention to hear two short adaptions of classical bible stories. After each story duo, there is space to write, draw, and choose an answer. It's perfect for enlivening conversations with your children/students and showing them how the bible relates to modern life. Let's get kids talking about the Bible!

I recieved an ARC in exchange for honest review. This devotional had good content in the sense it unpacked fun, exciting Bible stories that kids would like. I felt that the "Would You Rather" questions were a bit intense at times (eg. Be in a den of lions) and the sections were relatively small for an entire book titled "Would You Rather?" I also didn't feel there was a lot of coherency in the devotional but instead it was simply all pieced together.

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a fantastic book for children to learn about the bible and have fun at the same time.

This devotional journal gives two Bible stories (in short condensed form of 2 pages per story) and then asks the child which they would choose between (would you rather ______ or _______?) then gives them a full page to answer which one they would rather and why and then the next page is to draw it.

I had great fun reading this book and choosing which one between two scenarios and it refreshed my knowledge of bible stories at the same time.

Would you Rather is a fun devotional for kids. The books gives two stories from the Bible as an intro then asks kids would you rather between the two stories with an area to write their response and even draw a picture. There are 56 and fun to use this season of home quarantine and not being able to get into a church building.

I was provided with an electronic ARC through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Would You Rather. . .
An Interactive Devotional Journal and Sketchbook for Adventurous Kids!
by Matt Koceich
Back of the Book: “The Would You Rather. . . interactive devotional journal and sketchbook brings the Bible to life for the adventurous kids in your life, ages 8 and up. With page after entertaining page of Bible story-based devotions and "Would You Rather. . ." journal prompts and sketch pages, kids will be prompted to dig deep into their Bibles as they learn about some of the weird, gross, and unbelievable stories found in God's Word.”
Impressions: This devotional is an enthralling book of adventure my boys were happy to listen to. It was thought-provoking and fun to read and discuss.
Liked: Seriously just the title made me want to read this book. Putting two biblical stories together and having kids pick which story they would rather experience brought the Bible to life and helped create some great engaging conversations. It was exciting to read and gave a great opening to talking about the realities of people in the Bible and how relative their faith is to ours. God is the same yesterday today and forever.
Disliked: Not sure there was anything to dislike?
Learned: I learned how to make the Bible engaging to my boys.
Quotes: Just read the book.

It is so relatable to the kids .I had a great time reading this

Thank you for the opportunity to read this ARc in exchange for an honest review

What a fun way to engage kids in biblical reading and topics. Love the way it’s all meshed together and made relatable for kids.
Thank you for the opportunity to read this ARc in exchange for an honest review