Bible Animals

Bible Animals is just in from the Banner of Truth. In the same series as Bible Numbers and a Bible Alphabet, this is another activity book with a difference!  Alongside unique illustrations are pages to colour and stories to read.  The stories are not just a simple re-telling of well known Bible events but dig deeper into important Bible truths. For example a hungry lion is not only used to illustrate the story of Daniel in the lion's den but also to open up the subject of prayer. This is a lovely activity book to work through with your child (approx 5yrs).

Lorna

Footsteps of the Past

I picked out some activity books from the shop to occupy our boys on a long journey this week and discovered a winner for Matt. His current favourite subject is history, so I headed for the Day One 'Footsteps of the Past' series, and picked out William Tyndale. This is a great series written by two deputy-headteachers who aim to introduce key figures in Christian history. The booklets are full of facts and fun activities - some, like code cracking can be completed in the car, and others like 'Make a Quill Pen' take a bit more time and mess! Our destination being a quiet country spot in Wiltshire, Matt was out early this morning chasing pheasants in an attempt to catch a feather for his quill pen. Unfortunately the pheasants were faster than him so he had to settle for a rather more plain pigeon feather that he found in the garden. Then he needed some berries (oh dear, wrong time of year but thankfully Granny had some in the freezer!), some salt, some vinegar and away he went...

The finished product!

I think this is an inspiring series for 7+yr olds, plenty of biographical information interspersed with well thought out activities. For anyone planning a trip to the British Museum the series also includes 2 books intended to take a child through the Museum particularly relating the history to the Old Testament (Kings, Pharaohs and Bandits) and the New Testament (Romans, Gladiators and Games). At only £2 these booklets are really excellent value for money.

It is also worth noting that this 'Footsteps of the Past' series is linked with the adult 'Travel with...' series - something for all the family!

Lorna

Wet Holidays?

This is getting disgraceful - no new posts for over a week. Sorry. I'd like to say we've been run off our feet, but unfortunately not - at least not with customers. We haven't exactly been putting our feet up either though. Jeremy is working very hard on our new stock control system so that it will be ready for a month of testing during August. This means that his head is currently full of 'queries', 'visual basic' and 'runtime errors' (don't ask, I have learnt not to!) Having said that I have spotted him relaxing with the new biography of Cornelius Van Til, so you may get to hear his opinion on that sometime. Our July Bulletin was emailed this week with some suggestions for holiday reading, you can read this by clicking the link on our homepage. Of course, if you let us have your email address, you could get our monthly bulletin direct to your desktop! One thing we didn't mention on the bulletin was activity books. With holidays looming and the wet weather looking set to stay, it may be worth your while stocking up on some activity books to keep the children busy. The TBS have recently brought out a new range with puzzles, wordsearches and crosswords covering a range of topics. These cost just 65p each. Plus we have sticker books, colouring books, dot-to-dot books and many more - give us a call or check the site for more info.

Lorna