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Unwrapping The Greatest Gift: A Family Celebration Of Christmas (2014)

by Ann Voskamp(Favorite Author)

4.38 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1414397542 (ISBN13: 9781414397542)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Tyndale House Publishers

review 1: 5* for aesthetics. This book is beautiful. Seriously.2* for effectiveness. The ideas are there, but this is long-winded and unnecessarily abstract. My wife and I and three kids had trouble following what was being talked about each night. It seemed like it would have been great to have Voskamp standing in front of us, story telling... but reading it was a confrontation with a riot of Biblical imagery and an overwhelming number of adjectives and adverbs. Also, each night had something like 3 questions and 2-3 activities and it would have been more effective if she had one question and one activity. But that fit the whole problem with the book: too much. A slammed down version of this would probably be 5*.We won't use this for Advent again, but will probably put the ... morebook on a table for looks. :) **I loved Voskamp's 1000 Gifts, btw.
review 2: This book is a beautiful addition to our family's Jesse Tree tradition. Not all of the readings match up with our Jesse Tree ornaments, but we made do. The readings are definitely longer and more substantial; definitely for older children. But I like how Ann Voskamp builds anticipation for Christmas and truly emphasizes the real reason we celebrate His birth on Christmas: Because He came to save us, to rescue us back into God's loving arms. less

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