July 14, 2010 | Share Article FIRST Wild Card Tour: Jesus and the Children
It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book!
You never know when I might play a wild card on you!
Today's Wild Card author is:
Andrew McDonough
and the book:
***Special thanks to Pam Mettler of Zondervan for sending me a review copy.***
Andrew is the creator, writer, and illustrator of the Lost Sheep series. Way back in 1989 as a young Bible college student, Andrew was asked to give the dreaded “children’s talk” at a large church. Andrew possessed one talent: he could draw sheep. He bought some overhead projector sheets and drew up the story of Cecil and the Lost Sheep. T he congregation loved it, so Andrew continued to draw stories to use with kids and adults. Other students, pastors, and teachers started borrowing the stories.Product Details:
List Price: $4.99
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Zondervan (January 15, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031071947X
ISBN-13: 978-0310719472
My Review:
During the Sunday School hour at our church we have a Bible lesson for the littlest children in our church nursery. There are four that we rotate throughout the year and one of them is the account of Jesus and the Children located in Matthew 19.
I thought it was so fun as I shared the book text with the toddlers (most of whom range between 2 and 3 years of age). The repetition of the words really enforces that Jesus' kingdom is for young and old. When I used the book text again two weeks later, the kids were already chiming in at certain parts, it was wonderful to hear that they grasped what Jesus is saying in that portion of Scripture.
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