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Beginning with God: Book 2

Exploring the Bible with your child

Beginning with God: Book 2

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By: J Boddam Whetham & A Mitchell
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Beginning with God helps parents with young children to explore the Bible with their child.

Description

'Taste and see that the Lord is good.' - Psalm 34 v 8

Beginning with God helps parents with young children to explore the Bible with their child. This book provides a simple way to start your child in a regular habit of reading God's Word and growing to know God, who loves them.

We hope this book will help you and your child to explore the Bible together. Along the way you will meet Moses; read about God’s special family the Israelites; and be thrilled by the wonderful things said and done by God’s perfect Son, Jesus. But most of all, we hope that reading God's special book, the Bible, will help your child to know God, who loves them.

Beginning with God has been designed to work with The Beginner's Bible, but it can also be used with most other infant Bibles.

In today's culture so much pressure is put on us to feed our children well. We pray that this material will help those of us with pre-schoolers to nourish them with the word of God.

Each day is split into the following sections:

The main course: read today's true story from the Bible; answer some simple questions; pray together; then stick in today's colourful picture of the story.

Appetiser: an optional activity to grab your child's attention before the story.

A snack for the journey: a conversation to have while out and about.

Make it and munch it: optional craft activities to help your child remember today's true story.

As some reviewers have pointed out below, there were some issues during the production of the stickers for Book 2, which means they are not as easy to use as Book 1 and Book 3. We are currently investigating providing replacement stickers for Book 2 and can ensure our customers that Book 1 and Book 3 and the Christmas edition do not share this problem. We're sorry to those customers who have been disappointed by this product as a result.

Table of contents

  • How to use this book
  • True stories from the Old Testament
  • - A baby in a basket
  • - The burning bush
  • - Ten plagues
  • - The Red Sea
  • - Food from heaven
  • - Ten commandments
  • - Twelve spies
  • - Joshua and the spies
  • - The battle of Jericho
  • - Deborah leads the way
  • - Gideon's battle
  • - Samson
  • - Ruth and Naomi
  • - Hannah's prayer
  • - A voice in the night
  • True stories from the New Testament
  • - Two miracles
  • - The fishermen's net
  • - Jesus feeds thousands
  • - Jesus walks on water
  • - Jesus heals a blind beggar
  • - Money in a fish
  • - The good Samaritan
  • - Mary and Martha
  • - The lost sheep
  • - The prodigal son
  • - Ten lepers
  • - Jesus and the children
  • - A short man
  • - Lazarus lives again
  • - A gift for Jesus
  • Extras
  • - Tricky questions
  • - Tasty new words
  • - Make it and munch it
  • - A snack for the journey

Additional Information

Age range: 2 - 5
Author J Boddam Whetham & A Mitchell
ISBN 9781907377396
Format Paperback
Dimensions 152mm x 224mm
Pages 80
Publisher The Good Book Company

Customer Reviews

Great resource for little ones

 We love these books, are now using them for our second child, and still find them really helpful for talking about Bible stories. They love the games and starting activities. My only complaint is that several of our copies have had badly cut stickers which have to be torn off the sticker page. - Ed note: we've popped a spare set of stickers in the post to you. 

| Review by | 26/04/2012

Excellent for preschoolers

 We are very impressed with the Beginning with God series. Our 3 year-old son enjoys the whole thing, from saying the prayer, to listening to the story, to counting how many questions there are, to hands up and hands in prayers, and sticker time. He doesn't always listen to the story or answer the questions correctly (he is only 3!) but it has enabled us to introduce a time where we spend time with God, looking at His word, praying together in a fun way. Our 5 year-old daughter has also enjoyed this series, although it is quite easy for her now, and she has just finished book 3 and is ready to move on to slightly more advanced notes (although nothing can quite beat stickers with little ones!) All in all we would highly recommend this resource for 2.5-5 year olds. I don't know what we will do when our son finishes book 3! Bring out book 4! 

| Review by | 09/11/2011

Excellent for preschoolers

 We have been very impressed with the Beginning with God notes for our two children. Our 3 year-old son enjoys all aspects of the study, from saying the prayer, listening to the story, counting how many questions there are, hands up and hands in prayers, and sticker time. He doesn't always listen to the story or answer the questions correctly (being only 3!), but he loves the whole process, and it has enabled us to introduce bible reading, study and spending time with God in a really enjoyable way. Our 5 year-old daughter loves them although they are quite easy for her now, and she has just finished book 3, so moving on to some very slightly more advanced notes (Pens). We would all, in this family, highly recommend these notes for 2.5-5 year-olds. 

| Review by | 09/11/2011

Great guide for Toddler Bible times

 We regularly use these (& the others in the series) for Bible times with our 1 & 3 year olds. Lots of helpful suggestions for discussions and questions about the stories, summary of the main point and a set structure which means even our 1 year old can follow and join in.

Great if you are wondering how to move from just reading a story to discussing it and helping your child think more about it. 

| Review by | 10/09/2011

Very useful

 This is just as good as book 1. Easy to prepare (we do it while the porridge is cooking), relevant to the kids experience of life and gets them enthusiastic about reading the Bible together. We regularly buy copies as presents for other families! 

| Review by | 22/02/2011

Problems with stickers but still a great resource

 Let me state at the outset my conflict of interest - I am the Marketing Director at The Good Book Company! But I'm also the father of a 3 year old and we've been doing Beginning with God together for the past month or two.

We used to read the Beginner's Bible before, but the structure of Beginning with God has proved much more effective for helping Susie understand and remember the main points of the passage and to pray a simple prayer with me at the end.

I agree absolutely with the reviews pointing out the issues with the stickers in book 2 (and I know the print department are working hard on a solution) but our experience was that whilst this made using the stickers harder to use, it definitely didn't ruin the session. Nevertheless, I've knocked a star off which is a shame because otherwise it is a brilliant product. 

| Review by | 16/11/2010

Disappointing compared to book 1

 Our 2 year old LOVED book 1 and we were excited to buy book 2 for her. The writing quality is still very high but it seems like huge corners have been cut in terms of production. The stickers are such poor quality, they are impossible for her to take off the sheet herself without ripping them as she did with book one and are definitely not reusable as book 1 ones were (meaning we could retell the stories without having to buy another copy of the same book, helping with the cost). The illustrations on the stickers are different to those in the bible so she often can't find the correct sticker from the passage by matching the pictures. Don't cut corners on the production of these books!! They are too good! 

| Review by | 12/11/2010

Great Content, shame about the stickers!

 We purchased Beginning with God Book 2 to use with our two children (2 and 5) after we finished Book 1, and really enjoyed it. We have no reservations about recommending the content. The 'studies' each day are very simple and easy to follow with the Beginners Bible, and our children respond enthusiastically to it.

Our main disappointment was that the stickers were very difficult to remove as they had not been scored properly, and as the children looked forward to doing the stickers at the end they were upset when they were ripped or damaged.

If this manufacturing problem with the stickers is sorted out then I would recommend this book with 5 stars. 

| Review by | 11/11/2010

Excellent Bible resource for 3-5yr olds

 We love this book - the children mostly love it for the stickers. It makes good use of the Toddler Bible, which we find the best children's Bible for covering a wide range of stories in an accessible way. Unfortunately there was a printing issue with this edition as our stickers wouldn't peel out - we had to cut them out ourselves 

| Review by | 18/10/2010

Really good but with a reservation

 I thought that on the whole this is, again, an invaluable resource with lots of good and helpful ideas for how to teach the truths to young children.

I have a concern, however, that a couple of the sessions have missed the point. To give one example I doubt that the parable of the Good Samaritan is there mainly to teach us that "God wants us to love and help everyone we can". More likely it is there to teach us that we can't! - and that's why we need Jesus! Of course loving Jesus then informs our attitude towards others etc.

We haven't finished the book yet and there aren't many like I've desrcibed here. I'd certainly recommend it to others. 

| Review by | 18/10/2010

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