I'm still not quite sure how to feel about this Bible. My church uses it from time to time in the children's ministry but mainly for kids to look through before class starts. On the one hand the kids genuinely want to read it because it has 200 Bible stories in comic book version. They love the pictures and they ask lots of questions. On the other hand the text is all in comic book form too. It's definitely not a translation and don't think it could be considered a paraphrase either. Most of the comic book version of the Bible stories are fairly accurate but missing quite a lot of detail. I think all the effort and time was put into the pictures and the text was an afterthought.