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★★★★☆
High Quality book but not really a 'story.' Great illustrations for young kids, though. (Age 2 - 6)
Don't expect to read a long story with characters in this book. It's 95% a very nicely illustrated book and 5% story with very few words. The pictures do speak for themselves, and you could have a lot of conversation with your littles about what's going on in each page. The pages themselves do make up a very good story, sort of like Kung Fu Panda illustrations with no words. (There are words, but they aren't about any specific characters, for instance: "Sometimes love hurts, but love is always worth it.") Then at the end of the book, there's many pages of things you can play with your kids, games that will teach them Christian virtues and such. Someone said that the book was poorly constructed. As someone who has owned thousands of children's books, I can say that that is 100% wrong. This book, as well as the accompanying map, are some of the highest quality construction I've ever come across! The pages are thick, with rich, beautifully colored illustrations. The huge map of an island is very thick and nice, and kids will love to hang it up in their room. Btw, Kirk's American Campfire Revival (facebook) is one of the best preaching/teaching things I've seen come along in a long, long time. Kirk did a good job with this book, but I think there is a lot more to what he is doing here than just this one book. For instance, the cover says "Saga Two: Book 8." So apparently there's a lot more stuff, but I've never heard of it before.
