The Big Book

The Big Book Yes! I love this! It’s a counterpart to the book entitled “The Tiny Book” and takes an engaging and poetic look at God’s “big things” in creation. A great way to teach children to recognize and appreciate the wonders that are all around them. I highly recommend purchasing the other book, The Tiny Book with this one.

The Tiny Book

The Tiny Book A delightful and engaging poem about the tiny things of God’s creation, gives children the opportunity to discover and appreciate tiny things of the world. When buying this book I would recommend also purchasing “The Big Book” and exploring the big things of God’s creation as well. A wonderful way to bring an appreciation of God’s creation to your children, and after reading you can go on a scavenger hunt to find the big and small things of the world.

The Tiny Book

The Tiny Book A delightful and engaging poem about the tiny things of God’s creation, gives children the opportunity to discover and appreciate tiny things of the world. When buying this book I would recommend also purchasing “The Big Book” and exploring the big things of God’s creation as well. A wonderful way to bring an appreciation of God’s creation to your children, and after reading you can go on a scavenger hunt to find the big and small things of the world.

Bombus Finds a Friend

Bombus Finds a Friend The continuing saga of Bombus the bumble bee…… In this engaging, delightful story our Bombus faces a trial and in that finds a friend. After the trouble in the first book of being teased and learning that he is created unique and special by God for a specific purpose, in this book Bombus is blessed with a friend. When he is blown away and lost Bombus finds a friend who helps him back home. We loved this book and can’t find an issue with it at all. God certainly provides for his children and it often is in a trial or hardship that we see these most clearly.

Bombus the Bumble Bee

Bombus the Bumblebee This story is included in some other curriculum – I believe Kindergarten (Not Simply K). I will begin by pointing out the positives of this book by saying that the illustrations are amazing and attention getting for younger kids. It is easy to point out the lesson that we are all created different with different talents and abilities and that we do not need to compare ourselves to others. In this I think the author has done a great job. I have always taught my children that we are all part of a greater story and a greater team than what we can see. In this we all have a part we are created for and gifted especially for this. Jeremiah 1 does a great job of pointing this out, “Before I formed you I knew you, before I placed you in your mother’s womb I set you aside”. The book also inadvertently addresses the issue of bullying and how sometimes being different means being teased. However, this is where the book also has a problem – this story is set in the beginning of time, the first of creation. If Bombus is enjoying the flowers on the “new earth” this makes me believe this is the beginning. I have taught my children, according to Genesis, that all was good and right in the world at this time. Man and creatures all lived in harmony with each other. Therefore, there could be no bullying, no pointing out another’s differences, no segregating, ostracizing or causing harm to others. Yet this is exactly what is happening to our bumbly little friend Bombus the Bee. I had to field questions with my very bright and inquisitive five year old as to why the Bee’s were mean in the perfect world before the fall. All in all – the book is good. Next time I read it I will be adapting it to after the fall, a little improve in the reading just to avoid the confusion of sin and meanness before the fall.

Echoes of Ararat

ECHOES OF ARARAT This highly insightful, well laid out book explores the various flood stories. It is good for children and parents alike to understand that while we read the Bible the stories held within the cover are not isolated to the Christian faith and the Bible alone. In fact they are supported by various other texts, fables, stories, and legends in tribes, nations and people spread all over the Earth. This book offers an opportunity to see how the flood narrative is pervasive in every culture and how this narrative directs beliefs and thoughts about the Earth. The Bible is not simply a book of stories that can’t be substantiated by Science or Historical evidence. This amazing book offers a great way to explore the narrative of the flood and talk about the wonders of God with your children.