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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know if this is the "best" way, but we've read through these books on occasion. Along with a book about evolution. ;)

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0756617723/
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1465402500/[/quote]

Here's a reader review of the first book:  This book is terrible. It is so obviously written from a Christian bias that it makes for very uncomfortable reading. The section on Buddhism skips entirely over the ideas of Mahayana Buddhism to focus on the more sensational beliefs of those who study Tantric Buddhism. The section on native belief systems is woefully inadequate, lumping peoples as diverse as Siberian Shamans and North American First Nations people in the same category. It treats the religions of the Neo-Pagan Movement as non-entities. I bought this book as an adjunct to a Interreligious Understanding course and feel that it completely fails in its task, but in scope and individual facts.

The second book, which is exclusively a children's Bible, gets more positive reader reviews, but they seem to come from religious people.  Also, part of the review says this:   "With a short passage at the end of each key story explaining the meaning behind it, the DK Illustrated Family Bible encourages young readers and families to think and learn making for a wonderful and meaningful introduction to [b]the greatest story ever told[/b]." (bold added for emphasis)

which suggests a pro-religious bias.[/quote]

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