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A Child's Geography
A Childs Geography: Explore the Holy Land
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- GenresGeography
243 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
About the author
Ann Voskamp
94 books1,398 followersAnn Voskamp is a farmer's wife, the home-educating mama to a half-dozen exuberant kids, and author of One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, a New York Times sixty-week bestseller..
Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she's a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all.
Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful.
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Named by Christianity Today as one of fifty women most shaping culture and the church today, she's a global advocate for needy children with Compassion International, a loser of library books, a stirrer of soup, a loud laugher, a kid snuggler, a Jesus lover and honestly, a bit of a mess. It’s okay really. Grace is the most amazing of all.
Her online journal, one of the top 10 most widely read Christian blogs online, is a relief of quiet vulnerability and an oasis of sacred, seeing God in the everyday ugly beautiful.
Connect with Ann on:
AnnVoskamp.com
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October 2, 2011
I selected this to read with my 12-and-9-year-old boys while simultaneously reading Bruce Feiler's Walking the Bible with my teenage daughters, hoping it would be a similar learning experience. While I found Walking the Bible to be a fascinating vicarious journey that filled me with spirituality and wonder, A Child's Geography left me feeling remote from the places described.
While we did learn some from this book, the style and format made our geography education difficult. The maps and pictures in the book are not very good and are all too small. Voskamp begins each section by relating the place to be discussed to a place already familiar to her but not the reader, which we found distracting. Why introduce us to an unfamiliar place as a way of trying to help us relate to another unfamiliar location? Each country also has pictures of a child that I presume must be from that country, but the author never explains that, so it just added more busyness and distractions to an already-busy book. She invited the reader to pretend to be on a magic carpet or on a guided tour, but her unengaging descriptions left us at home on our sofa.
Her theology also felt remote to us, even though we are religious. In describing the "fairy chimneys" in Cappadocia, she writes, "Finally, He sculpts a fairy chimney when a small cap of the original basalt sits atop a cone of tuff. Like when you don a cap, God leaves a cap atop the cone to protect it from eroding or weathering away." I see the wonder of God's creations as well, but I don't picture Him sculpting rock formations individually.
I think the author tried to do go too many directions at once with the book while failing to engage us with the stories of places that have connected men with God for centuries.
While we did learn some from this book, the style and format made our geography education difficult. The maps and pictures in the book are not very good and are all too small. Voskamp begins each section by relating the place to be discussed to a place already familiar to her but not the reader, which we found distracting. Why introduce us to an unfamiliar place as a way of trying to help us relate to another unfamiliar location? Each country also has pictures of a child that I presume must be from that country, but the author never explains that, so it just added more busyness and distractions to an already-busy book. She invited the reader to pretend to be on a magic carpet or on a guided tour, but her unengaging descriptions left us at home on our sofa.
Her theology also felt remote to us, even though we are religious. In describing the "fairy chimneys" in Cappadocia, she writes, "Finally, He sculpts a fairy chimney when a small cap of the original basalt sits atop a cone of tuff. Like when you don a cap, God leaves a cap atop the cone to protect it from eroding or weathering away." I see the wonder of God's creations as well, but I don't picture Him sculpting rock formations individually.
I think the author tried to do go too many directions at once with the book while failing to engage us with the stories of places that have connected men with God for centuries.
January 1, 2018
A little tricky to read out loud as I struggled with a fair bit of the pronunciation, but we loved "visiting" the lands of bible history with the kids.
If this book is republished it would be great to have all colour photographs and larger ones so they are easier to see.
If this book is republished it would be great to have all colour photographs and larger ones so they are easier to see.
June 18, 2015
I found the number of errors and typos very frustrating.
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