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FIRST Wild Card Tour: In the Big Inning: Bible Riddles from the Back Pew

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old…or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!

You never know when I might play a wild card on you!

Today’s Wild Card author is:

Mike Thaler (Author)
and
Jared Lee (Illustrator)

and the book:

Zonderkidz (February 1, 2010) 
***Special thanks to Krista Ocier of Zondervan for sending me a review copy.***
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Known as the Riddle King of America, Mike Thaler is the author of the popular Black Lagoon books and the Heaven and Mirth series. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and travels nationally, speaking in schools, libraries, and churches.
Visit the author’s website.
Jared Lee is an accomplished illustrator with experience working for the likes of L.L. Bean, Procter and Gamble, Hasbro, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and the U.S. Postal Service. He currently resides in Lebanon, Ohio.

Visit the illustrator’s website.

Product Details:

List Price: $4.99
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Zonderkidz (February 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0310715970
ISBN-13: 978-0310715979
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x

MY THOUGHTS:

How do you know God is a baseball fan?

Because He starts off the Bible, “In the big inning!”

How do you know Adam and Eve played board games?
Because they had a paradise!

What ship can carry you to God?
Worship!

In the Big Inning:  Bible Riddles from the Back Pew is page after page of good, clean, silly fun.  My boys, ages 6 & 9, read the book, memorized the jokes, and then tried them out on anyone who would listen:  their Dad, their Grandmother, their friends, and each other  And if the riddles weren’t funny enough, the illustrations are hilarious.  They’re sure to provide your family with as many laughs as the riddles themselves!

There were a couple of riddles my boys didn’t understand because they were not familiar with the Bible stories.  This turned out to be wonderful motivation for them to find the stories and read them.  Silly riddles and encouragement for Bible study, what more could one ask?

I received this book from Zondervan in exchange for my honest review.  The thoughts printed in this review are entirely my own.

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