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Review of Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids
[Following is a volunteer review of "Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids" by Jemima Paul, Arvind Paul.]
Snached up to heaven for kids by Jemima Paul with Arvind Paul is based on the experience of Emma, an eight year old who dreamt of heaven. It starts with Emma dreaming of heaven. In her dream, Emma dreams that herself and her 6 year old sister, Bella, fly into heaven with angels. In heaven, they journeyed with Jesus and his angels and saw beautiful things and more angels. Emma is so fascinated about her first experience and she prays to God that she experiences heaven again. God answers her prayer and she and her sister Bella get snached up to heaven several times. Each time she wakes up, Emma races to share her dream of heaven with the rest of the family. Every time Emma shares the dreams of heaven, Bella wants to know what she, herself, did in the dream.
Emma describes the beauty of heaven, as sparkly with a rainbow, the streets are made of gold. Emma describes the light and colours of heaven. When she tells her parents her conversation with Jesus, her parents bring out the bible and show them the evidence of her dream in the Bible. The parents are able to back each and every experience with evidence from the Bible. Emma sees many plants and animals in heaven, angels, people from the Bible, and also ate a delicious meal in heaven. In Emma's last dream, she and Bella are taken down to hell. Emma wakes up scared and tells her family about the scary, dreadful and hopeful sights of people being tormented in hell, by Satan and his demons.
This book is very cuptivating and resourceful for all Christian families striving to bring up their children in the way of the Lord, in accordance to the Bible and I think it deserves a 3 out 4. What I love about Snached up to heaven for kids by Jemima Paul with Arvind Paul is the fact that it initiates and facilitates hard conversations about heaven and hell. The best part is that through the characters of the parents we see the scriptural evidence of Emma's experience in the Bible.
Today on YouTube there's countless videos and books of people who have experienced heaven and hell. I'm also reminded of the book "One hour in heaven and hell" by Patrick Wandera who documents his eight year old son, Pearl Wandera's experience of heaven and hell. It is lovely that this book contributing to the ways kids can be brought into this conversation and to plant a seed of the realities of heaven and hell in them. Therefore, I recommend the book to every parent.
However, I feel there is too much injustice to the illustration and it could have been way better. It lacked representation of other ethnicities. The only two times we get to see other ethnicities is when the character is backing the audience and secondly when Emma is envisioning how she's going to tell her unsaved friends all about Jesus. As an African parent I wish Jemima Paul with Arvind Paul could have found a better balance for representation and inclusion of ethnicities.
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Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids
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Snached up to heaven for kids by Jemima Paul with Arvind Paul is based on the experience of Emma, an eight year old who dreamt of heaven. It starts with Emma dreaming of heaven. In her dream, Emma dreams that herself and her 6 year old sister, Bella, fly into heaven with angels. In heaven, they journeyed with Jesus and his angels and saw beautiful things and more angels. Emma is so fascinated about her first experience and she prays to God that she experiences heaven again. God answers her prayer and she and her sister Bella get snached up to heaven several times. Each time she wakes up, Emma races to share her dream of heaven with the rest of the family. Every time Emma shares the dreams of heaven, Bella wants to know what she, herself, did in the dream.
Emma describes the beauty of heaven, as sparkly with a rainbow, the streets are made of gold. Emma describes the light and colours of heaven. When she tells her parents her conversation with Jesus, her parents bring out the bible and show them the evidence of her dream in the Bible. The parents are able to back each and every experience with evidence from the Bible. Emma sees many plants and animals in heaven, angels, people from the Bible, and also ate a delicious meal in heaven. In Emma's last dream, she and Bella are taken down to hell. Emma wakes up scared and tells her family about the scary, dreadful and hopeful sights of people being tormented in hell, by Satan and his demons.
This book is very cuptivating and resourceful for all Christian families striving to bring up their children in the way of the Lord, in accordance to the Bible and I think it deserves a 3 out 4. What I love about Snached up to heaven for kids by Jemima Paul with Arvind Paul is the fact that it initiates and facilitates hard conversations about heaven and hell. The best part is that through the characters of the parents we see the scriptural evidence of Emma's experience in the Bible.
Today on YouTube there's countless videos and books of people who have experienced heaven and hell. I'm also reminded of the book "One hour in heaven and hell" by Patrick Wandera who documents his eight year old son, Pearl Wandera's experience of heaven and hell. It is lovely that this book contributing to the ways kids can be brought into this conversation and to plant a seed of the realities of heaven and hell in them. Therefore, I recommend the book to every parent.
However, I feel there is too much injustice to the illustration and it could have been way better. It lacked representation of other ethnicities. The only two times we get to see other ethnicities is when the character is backing the audience and secondly when Emma is envisioning how she's going to tell her unsaved friends all about Jesus. As an African parent I wish Jemima Paul with Arvind Paul could have found a better balance for representation and inclusion of ethnicities.
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Snatched Up to Heaven for Kids
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