Editorial Reviews. About the Author. Arnold Ytreeide is a fine storyteller who cares deeply Jotham's Journey: A Storybook for Advent by [Ytreeide, Arnold].
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This story is what I would describe as historical fiction. If you're looking for strictly scripture reading for advent, this isn't it. Jotham is a young boy separated from his family because of his disobedience. His journey is to be reunited with his parents and brothers.
Along the way he meets some kind people, many who talk of the coming Messiah, and one horrible, dangerous, angry man that seems to show up every time it looks like Jotham has escaped. At the end of each day's reading there are scripture verses and a short devotion guiding the reader to look forward to the coming Messiah. The book itself is well written.
Jotham's Journey : A Storybook for Advent
We were on the edge of our chairs each night and frequently had cries of "I knew it! Having said that, my children range in age from There is no way I would recommend this for the range as the book says. The book is too intense and has too many violent scenes. Had I read this to my children at the book recommended age, I don't know that we would have made it past night one before putting the book away.
Do I recommend the book? We are ruined forever after reading this book this Christmas! Every other storybook, and I'm afraid - Advent - book will now pale in comparison! My children are 3 and 5, and I was initially worried this book may be too advanced for them. I found quite the opposite to be true- the storyline is so suspensful that they begged and reminded me each day to read "Jotham"! I didn't edit a couple of more scarier lines of the text, but overall, they got the lessons Jotham had to learn.
They truly understand the nativity and the true meaning of Christmas this year and this book made it even more "real" to them. My husband joins all the others mentioned in reviews who don't particularly enjoy reading, but couldn't put this book down and had to be stopped from skipping ahead to see what happens! We purchased the rest of the books in Ytreeide's series, including the Easter book and are eagerly awaiting reading them in the years to come.
This will be a new tradition we intend to keep each Christmas season for years to come! Our only disappointment is that there are additional books written by this author! We read this book as a family each night of advent this past Christmas season and it was fantastic! Both of our boys, ages 4 and 7, absolutely loved the book, as did both adults reading! It was a great amount of reading each night minutes and the short reflection at the end of each nightly reading were the perfect way to each each day leading up to Christmas day. The boys talked about the book all the time, and at one point our 4 year old said he didn't want any presents for Christmas, he just wanted to finish the Jotham book!
The cliffhangers each night had our boys asking to get ready for bed by 4: The action and emotions were intense. My boys are generally pretty sensitive to scary scenes in movies most Disney movies terrify them but reading these scenes in the safety of our candlelit living room as a family helped soften it enough for their ages, and make it realistic and exciting. I highly recommend this for all ages. We plan to buy the other books and do this every year at Christmas.
Advent read-aloud for our family. Kids 9,7,5, and 3.
The youngest didn't attend much to it, but kept the other 3 and their dad! The 'epilogue' after each chapter had thought-provoking questions and usually a scripture verse. The story was perilous, and scary a few times to my sensitive 7 year-old, but he's frightened by the abominable snow-monster on the Rudolph movie: For those wondering, it's fiction, but brings Biblical truths into the story.
For example, Jothan visits the home of Zachariah and Elizabeth and infant John, just missing the visit from still pregnant Mary. During that visit, Zachariah and Elizabeth share what had happened to them recently, following closely the account in scripture. This book's chapters often end in cliff-hangers, which the kids loved. We finished the book a few days before Christmas, and started Bartholomew's Passage. Jothan had stayed briefly with Bartholomew during Jothan's Journey, and we heard of events during that stay from Jothan's perspective, now we're hearing the same events from Bartholomew's perspective, which is interesting.
Plan to read from the series again next year--a new Advent tradition for our family! This book came highly recommended, but ended up not being for my sensitive girls, ages 4, 7 and 9.
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Granted--the book is recommended for 4th-6th grade, and my oldest daughter 4th grade was okay with it. But she didn't like it enough to push us to continue when I asked if anyone wanted to continue it after about the 4th or 5th painful day. I liked the scripture readings at the end, and I love the idea, but overall the story didn't feel Christmasy 4 or 5 days in, anyway and was just too scary and violent for us. Maybe in a few years. Just for context, we are a homeschooling family that reads all the time, and enjoyed Narnia and other adventure books. Though he faces thieves, robbers, and kidnappers, Jotham also encounters the wise men, shepherds, and innkeepers until at last he finds his way to the Savior born in Bethlehem.
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