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Lift-the-Flap Bible Stories for Young Children
by Andrew DeYoung
Interactive lift-the-flap Bible stories that engage young children at bedtime. Gentle stories with surprises on every page.
Updated August 2026
Key features of this book.
- Interactive lift-the-flap design
- Simple retellings
- Engaging for toddlers
- Durable board book
How to use this book.
For bedtime reading
- Read one story per night for a calming routine
- Use gentle, soothing tones
- Point out illustrations and ask questions
- End with a simple bedtime prayer
For family devotions
- Read together and discuss the story
- Ask: "What did you learn about God?"
- Connect the story to your child's life
- Draw or act out scenes together
We recommend this one honestly, so we will be honest about ours too. If your child likes hearing their own name in a story, that is the book we make ourselves.
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Bring Lift-the-Flap Bible Stories for Young Children home.
Recommended for ages 2-5 years.
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What we checked against Scripture.
We read the passages behind the stories in this book and note where a retelling compresses, paraphrases or adds. We compare editions and read what other parents report. We have not tested this book with a classroom.
Scope, Adam and Eve to Jesus
Sixteen pages hold a handful of scenes with no thread between them. Each story is compressed to a couple of sentences, so nothing survives except the single most familiar image.
References
No chapter-and-verse references are printed, so a parent who wants to read the real passage afterwards has to find it themselves.
Questions parents ask.
What age is Lift-the-Flap Bible Stories for Young Children for?
Christianbook lists it for ages 2 to 6. The flaps are card rather than paper, but a determined toddler can still work one loose, so under two it is a supervised book. Most of the appeal fades around five, when a child would rather read the words than lift the picture to find out what is under it.
What is inside the book?
Sixteen pages with more than 30 lift-the-flap surprises, published by Sparkhouse in 2018, written by Andrew DeYoung and Naomi Joy Krueger and illustrated by Megan Higgins. The stories span Adam and Eve through the life of Jesus, with a fact hidden under each flap. At that page count each story is one spread and a couple of sentences.
How long does a reading take?
Two or three minutes read straight through, and considerably longer if your child insists on opening every flap twice. It is short enough to be the second book of a bedtime rather than the whole of one. Families often keep it in the church bag or the car for the same reason.
What does it leave out?
Almost everything. Sixteen pages cannot hold the Bible, so this is a handful of the most familiar scenes with no connecting thread between them, no Scripture text and no chapter-and-verse references. It works as a first taste of the stories and not as the book a child actually learns them from.
Is it worth buying instead of The Beginner's Bible?
The Beginner's Bible is the one to learn from: 512 pages, more than 90 stories and enough words to carry a plot. This is the one to play with. Families with a two-year-old often own both and reach for the flaps when attention is short. If you can only buy one, buy the storybook.