Christian Alphabet Book for Children

Homeschool Review Crew

As part of the Homeschool Review Crew we recently got to pleasure to receive and read a cute new Christian Alphabet Book for Children.  Titled T is for Tree: A Bible ABC and released through the Reformed Free Publishing Association it’s chock full of colorful images and great Bible truths.  Written by Connie L. Meyer who also happens to be the one responsible for the gorgeous illustrations as well.  This book is geared towards ages 3-6. That being said, in my opinion older kids like it too and it has a lot of teachable moments for your older children to learn.  It’s not just all about the ABC’s after all but Bible woven into every page.

Our Thoughts

I love a good children’s book.  We have bookshelves full.  But I also go through them all the time and purge the ones that don’t necessarily fit all of our criteria.  This Christian alphabet book for children is amazing.  It uses the King James Version for the Bible verses which fits in with what we use in our home.  

While most letters only have one verse letter Z does have two Bible verses with it.  Z is for Zion and as the last letter gets a little bit more it seems.

I loved how the book was laid out.  You get the big bold letter first plus what they’re saying it stands for.  Next comes a short description of what that means plus a verse.  The short description is mostly just a paraphrase of the verse making it easy for a child to remember.

Also, there are definitely some things that jump out at you.  Maybe not the first time you read it but when you as the parent actually get to sit and look at the book.  For instance, on the letter P there are Creeds and Confessions of Faith in gorgeous typing within the border of the illustration!  I was raised Baptist and we’re now non denominational so these were not something I learned growing up.  Also, they’re not the entire Creed of course as they highlight several but it definitely opens up discussions with older kids.

Another letter with extras is letter J is for Jewel.  This one has a Bible verse printed into the margin of the illustration. Definitely easier to spot and easier to read for budding readers as well.  

How We Used

How would we use a Christian Alphabet Book for Children?  This might seem like a no brainer, but we read it!  Multiple times actually.  I read it to my children, my children read it to my children, my toddler demanded we read it paying special attention to animal pages, and so on.  When this review was offered I did get a good giggle because when they tell us expectations for how we’ll use the curriculum this one said to read it to a young child, at least once.  They must not know anything about my kids.  They’re like vultures to new books.  We read them and read them and read them until someone ends up hiding it because they’re tired of it or it accidentally gets put under other books.  For real.  Books are the best in our house.

Another way that isn’t quite as obvious for using the book is using it to memorize verses.  This definitely takes longer to memorize than it does to read especially when we’re talking about the large age range that I have in my house.  We start with letter A and work our way from there.  So letter A is for Ants.  The verse accompanying it is Proverbs 30:24-25.  While I do encourage my four-year old and almost two-year old to say the words with us I know that they most likely won’t memorize the whole thing.  What I expect from them is to be able to say the little description with me. So for this one it is Though weak and small in size, They gather food all summer, May God make us as wise.  And then we make it fun by doing some actions and having movement with that to help out.  

About the Author

Authored by Connie L. Meyer.  This didn’t ring any bells with me. I’ve never read anything by her before.  When I was reading the Author page at the back of the book though I discovered that she has written a three book art curriculum for children.  It’s titled Behold the Beauty.  If it’s anything like this book I’m sure its beautiful.  There are also other books and short stories that she’s written mentioned as well.  It also goes on to state that beyond her three-volume K-6th grade art curriculum she co-authored one for junior high and volunteered as a reading tutor at a Christian school.  

If anyone is wondering about the denomination behind this writing it is stated as Protestant. And not just Protestant but Reformed Protestant.  For me, I ‘m not super knowledgeable about the differences there.  I do know that there was nothing in this book that went against anything that we believe as a non denominational Christian family.  And again the biggest plus for us was that they use the King James Version of the Bible for the verses. 

Learn More

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