Love One Another: The Last Days of Jesus

by Lauren Thompson and Lauren Thompson; Elizabeth Uyehara

Book Overview

Recalls how Jesus taught people to love, how he was crucified for his teachings, and how his resurrection brought hope to the world. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590318306
• ISBN13: 9780590318303
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

Refreshing

I see lots of children's stories from our church library, Sunday school, from the Christian bookstores etc. I found this book of all places at the public library. I find it refreshing because its artwork is not the typical cartoony style I usually see. The crucifixion is a serious subject and the artwork reflects that. My 6-yr-old son is a visual learner, and he's attracted to comic books, the art you see in Yu-gi-OH cards, Avitar etc so he's bored with alot of the mild-looking cartoony material he sees in Sunday school, etc. This was different. Contrary to a prior review, the "off-camera" resurrection was quite effective with my son. I read it to him, and we imagined what Jesus looked like. We added sound effects. In fact, it struck up a 30 minute conversation on Jesus, heaven, the angels, the resurrection etc. I'm buying a copy and adding it to our library!

Beautiful, Positive and Rare

A wonderful, accessible retelling of the story of Holy Week for elementary-aged children. It is especially rare and special in that it is not based on the doctrine of substitutionary atonement ("Jesus died for our sins"), which is not synonymous with Christianity. It doesn't explicitly deny that belief, but places its emphasis on Jesus's charge to his followers to find redemption through love and forgiveness, no matter how difficult that may be. For those who want their children to have an understanding of the Crucifixion in the context of Jesus's life and teaching, and who want the lesson that they take away from the story to be positive and constructive, this is a great find.