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Loving this series!
I’m super excited about this book because our family is a huge fan of the Tales That Tell the Truth series. The family Bible devotional is a great companion to the storybook. You can read the storybook first and then spend time digging into the topic of prayer for 15 days, or you could do the devotional first and then the storybook. Or both at the same time. There’s really no wrong way to use them together.I really appreciate that this devotional can be used with younger kids because I feel like solid Biblical devotionals for this age is really lacking.Each day contains:Opening prayerStarter questionsScriptureQuestions to explore what the verses were aboutExtra questions for personal reflection and applicationClosing prayer promptsThere are also a few additional activity pages throughout the book.Each day can be done in 15 minutes or less. It would be a great bedtime or mealtime devotional. If you’re child is also able to independently read and write, it would be a great quiet time devotional for them to work through on their own. I’d say about age 8 and older. There is space on each page for writing the answers, or you can also use the book and discuss with your child if you don’t want to write in it.I appreciate that the full Scripture is included each day. You can also have your child(ren) look up the passage in their own Bibles if you want. The questions also give hints to which verse to find the answer for younger kids who may need a little extra help. I also like the prayer prompts at the end of each day. It’s not just a simple read the following prayer, but gives prompts to come up with your own prayer. What a wonderful way to help cultivate a good prayer life for youngsters!I’m hoping they come out with even more devotionals that match up with the Tales That Tell the Truth storybooks because this is a gem! And it fills the void of quality devotionals for this age range.
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"Any Time, Any Place, Any Prayer, Most People" ???
Text: 5 starsIllustrations: 2 stars (with balanced demographics-- then 5 stars)SKEWED DEMOGRAPHICSAs I went through the book I was very pleased to see so many people of color and females represented. But, by the time I got to the last page and noticed there were no white males in heaven (three people of color and one brown haired girl), I did a double take! After all some of our grandchildren are white males!Then I did some counting...Of the 36 contemporary children in the book, a little over half are children of color and almost half are white (fine, so far). However, there are more than double the number of girls than boys! (25 vs 11). AND only 2 are white males, 1 of whom is the only person in a wheelchair. So sad that this is following the World's trend of marginalizing boys!So, just two white boys and only one can walk. None on the cover, end page, or in heaven. How sad!Pretty good book, if you don't have white sons or grandsons. :/.... Why didn't anyone notice this before publication???GRANDSONS RESPONSEOur grandsons, 9 and 11 years old, read it together, and, quite frankly, they really liked it. They did not notice a lack of representation of themselves. I won't wait for them to notice, but will still pass it on to our friend's family who have many girls of color. :)______NOTE TO PUBLISHERS:Commendations on a beautiful message! But, you need to tune into the real world of people around us, and not that portrayed by the media.The adult population in the US (your largest audience) is 60% white and almost half of the children are white. So, with 36 modern-day children in your book, you should approximate equal number boys and girls (18+18) with half the boys (9) being white males. Let the boys have some fun being active, too, not just tying their shoes or in wheelchair (after all, one of the girls was doing ninja moves)!I look forward to an updated edition, with illustrations to better encourage all children to hear the beautiful message of "praying anytime, any place, any prayer" ♡
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Thoughtful Devotions About Prayer Explore Redemptive History
This family devotional by Katy Morgan is inspired by the “Any Time, Any Place, Any Prayer” storybook by Laura Wifler, and the readings go through fifteen different Bible passages about prayer. Each devotion features an opening prayer, a discussion prompt, a Bible passage and discussion questions about it, and a prompt for a closing prayer. There are also optional, more complex questions for older children. The book includes illustrations from Catalina Echeverri and occasional activities in her art style, such as coloring pages, a maze, and a wordsearch.This devotional covers a significant amount of biblical teaching about prayer. Different days cover different types of prayer, such as calling out to God for help or in repentance, and the book also covers the story of Jesus and the Lord's Prayer. I appreciate the book's breadth, and I think it's great that Morgan covered the whole arc of redemptive history, from creation to the new creation. However, the downside of this is that the book presumes a lot of prior knowledge and exposure to Bible stories. The very basic writing and simple concepts in the devotional readings feel mismatched with some of the more complex Bible passages. This feels too young for older kids who could better engage with the Scriptural content, and is too advanced for many younger kids who would connect with the devotional readings.I would recommend this devotional to families with young kids who are very well-versed in Bible stories and have already learned a lot about God. The focus on teaching kids about prayer is helpful, but this will be most successful if children are already very well-informed about biblical history. To be more successful for more audiences, this book would need to share more context for several of the passages, or would need to age-up the devotional material for older children.
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