Review of Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids
Posted: 07 May 2023, 12:59
[Following is a volunteer review of "Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids" by Jemima Paul, Arvind Paul.]
Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids by Jemima Paul and Arvind Paul is a book for children about heaven. I love the concept of being able to share this very important information with children, however I was conflicted while reading it. I thought the authors did a great job referencing scriptures in the Bible. Although the authors did a great job at making this information, digestible for younger children, I would not recommend this book for readers younger than five years old. This book does a good job at helping visualize some of the things that is written in the Bible. This could be good as a learning tool for Sunday school classes.
However, my issues are the illustrations. There was very little diversity in the illustrations. There seems to be white-washing of all of the characters, which, could be damaging to the BIPOC community. It would be hard to a child to not see people in the illustrations look like them. It could unintentionally share the perception that heaven is not for all people.
Overall, I thought the book was well written, and would give it a score of four out of five for the content. However, please use updated and more diverse illustrations.
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Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids
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Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids by Jemima Paul and Arvind Paul is a book for children about heaven. I love the concept of being able to share this very important information with children, however I was conflicted while reading it. I thought the authors did a great job referencing scriptures in the Bible. Although the authors did a great job at making this information, digestible for younger children, I would not recommend this book for readers younger than five years old. This book does a good job at helping visualize some of the things that is written in the Bible. This could be good as a learning tool for Sunday school classes.
However, my issues are the illustrations. There was very little diversity in the illustrations. There seems to be white-washing of all of the characters, which, could be damaging to the BIPOC community. It would be hard to a child to not see people in the illustrations look like them. It could unintentionally share the perception that heaven is not for all people.
Overall, I thought the book was well written, and would give it a score of four out of five for the content. However, please use updated and more diverse illustrations.
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Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon | on iTunes