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Bible Animals

Bible Animals

This is a sequel to A Bible Alphabet and Bible Numbers. It is a large book with text, coloured illustrations and colouring pages for children aged five and over. Drawing on Bible texts about animals the [...]

Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing

Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing

A beautifully illustrated devotional book for six to nine year olds by the author of the prize-winning Jesus Storybook Bible. Sally Lloyd-Jones, the author, is British but lives in New York. In the foreword Tim Keller [...]

Helping your children celebrate Easter

Helping your children celebrate Easter

It’s mid-January as I write the snow is thick on the ground. No school today so the children in my street are out making snowmen, sledging and throwing snowballs. Yesterday, with the heavy snow forecast, and [...]

Christmas wrapped up

Christmas wrapped up

For the last decade I have been visiting my local primary schools to watch the school nativity. With all the negative stories told in the media about starfish and aliens, I used to set off with [...]

Books for 10-12 year olds

These two books are in the Faithfinders series, published by Day One and cost £6 each. Discovering the Hidden Lamb by Gill Jacobs is a story of the Passover lamb and Jesus, the Lamb of God. [...]

Holiday Bible Club Resources

Holiday Bible Club Resources

If you want a ‘one stop shop’ for your Holiday Bible Club then look no further than these two new manuals prepared by Colin Jones and published by Day One in the Just Add Children series. [...]

Telling your kids about love, marriage and sex

Telling your kids about love, marriage and sex

When your children see sex advertised everywhere, you might think it is the one subject to avoid. The problem with that conclusion is that if you, as a parent, avoid it, your children will still hear [...]

How can I encourage my child to read?

How can I encourage my child to read?

Reading has always been my passion. Growing up I could usually be found somewhere in the house with ‘my nose in a book.’ Not always helpful if you’re supposed to be washing up or tidying your [...]

Resources for children’s ministry

Resources for children’s ministry

101 Puzzles, Quizzes and Other Stuff Tirzah Jones, DayOne, £10.00 ISBN:  978-1-84625-277-8 Biblically based puzzles and quizzes with CD to print them off from and answers in the back of the book. An excellent resource for [...]

Junior Book Bites

Junior Book Bites

There will be some events in 2012 which may be subjects that children will be exploring in school: the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic in April, the 100 year anniversary of Robert [...]