Bedtime Bible Dramas for Kids #hsreviews

Do you have a bedtime routine with your kids?  Have you ever thought of adding some Bedtime Bible Dramas for Kids to your bedtime routine?  If so, you need to check out Wizzy Gizmo.  

Recently, as a part of the TOS Crew Review Team, we received Book One:  Who Created Everything? to review.  Let me tell you, I knew as soon as I opened the package that this book was going to rock our world.  The cover was like nothing I had seen before.  This book is totally unique and eye catching.  My kids looked forward to reading it and honestly, it was way too short.  

The book is geared towards ages 4-12, but I used it with ages 3-9.  I can say that my three year old loved it just as much as my nine year old so I think going a little younger will work. Our 14 month old even sat and listened to the stories being read, but I don’t think she got very much out of it!  The book can be purchased for $12.99 off their website.  

Book One: Who Created Everything covers the story of the creation in Genesis 1.  There is also a Book Two: In His Image,which focuses on Adam and Eve but we did not receive that one to review.  You’ll have to check out some of the other reviews for information on it.

The book as stated covers Chapter 1 of Genesis but in a very unique way.  It is told by Professor Wizzy Gizmo and is the product of his putting the Bible on Gizmovision.  There is an audio drama also available to purchase that is the exact as this book but without the extras.  Those extras include vocabulary words that are highlighted throughout the reading, a glossary, and review questions in the back.  

There are seven chapters in the book.  We spread our reading out to one chapter per night.  This made it last a week.  Each day of creation gets it’s own chapter plus a chapter at the beginning to introduce and share and plan what’s going on!  The Wizzy Gizmo series is written by Chris Del Aquila and Justin Cummins.  

Seven seems to be a recurring number in the book because there are seven main characters.  There is a page introducing them at the beginning of the book.  You have the Professor, his robot, his dog, and then four children.  The favorite of the children for my children was Olive.  Olive is seven years old and loves to be barefoot.  She also loves animals.  This was perfect for my children as we live on a farm and I have a very hard time keeping them in shoes.  Oh and did I mention she runs not walks everywhere?  I think the authors studied my clan when they wrote her.  

My kids loved me reading the story to them, but they really loved the pictures.  There are full two page photos throughout the book.  They are vivid and full of color and detail.  We had to stop and study them and talk about them when reading because they so drew the attention.  The artists did  a great job in our opinion!

Now, the Gizmovision machine.  I’m sure you’ve not heard of one before.  This machine takes a book, any book, and makes it into a real life action packed story that you can participate in when you’re in the bubble.  It creates a bubble that is the book and the readers are then part of that bubble.  The kids suggest all kinds of stories to use, but in the end Professor Wizzy Gizmo chooses the Bible.  Not just any section of the Bible but Genesis Chapter 1 because it goes back to the beginning of time before all of the suggestions of the children.  

Now, I don’t want to tell you too much more about the book.  It would be giving it all away and trust me when I say you are going to want to read this or listen to the audiodrama yourself.  Yes you, you might be the parent, but you’re going to enjoy this series as well as your children.  

The only thing that I did not specifically like about the books is that they use the New American Standard Bible for all their scripture references.  As we’ve mentioned before we’re a King James family.  So, what we did to fix this is just after we’d finished our chapter we looked up the verses that were in it in the King James Version of the Bible we have and read them that way.  Then we could discuss any major differences.

Interested in learning more about Wizzy Gizmo?  Check out the main Crew Blog Page to browse through the selection of reviews for the different products to see which one will be the best fit for your family.    You can also visit Wizzy Gizmo on facebook, twitter, pinterest, google +, and vimeo.