As Full As the World, Reading 6 Student Text

By: BJU Press

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591666244
• ISBN13: 9781591666240
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: BOB JONES UNIV. PRESS INC.
• Weight: 2.56 lbs.

Customer Reviews

As Full as the World is really full of good stuff.

Funny, witty, classic, excellent literature, interviews, poetry.... this book has it all and then some. Many well chosen excerpts from brilliant authors, engaging and helpful, thought-provoking and touching stories make this a worthwhile purchase.

The Best That Christian Publishing Could Do--Back Then

This book is great for any parent who wants to have a "mini-library" right at hand for a child 10-12 years old. I was a manager on this textbook project years and years ago when I worked at BJU Press. I'm sure that some of the stories have been dropped and new ones added, but probably not that many. For one thing, I can tell from the cover that the book retains the "classic" stories that we wanted to include. We called this book, simply, READING 6. Our goals for the book were to introduce young readers to great children's literature by putting short stories and representative chapters of longer stories from great children's literature into each unit of the book. We also included an educational article per unit (and the book has six units, as I recall), for students to read for themselves. These articles taught students about the way fiction is written and how to evaluate it. Each unit had to have a humor, a historical fiction piece, and an assortment of other types of fiction, including a thoroughly Christian story that was more than just Christian kids solving a mystery or having an adventure. I never wanted to include any stories that depicted salvation as an endpoint. Salvation is the beginning, and I loathe stories that indicate that there's nothing more significant beyond salvation. I also didn't want any "goody two shoes" stories included that oversimplified good and evil by making the Christian kids good and the non-Christian kids evil. I think those types of stories are deceptive, because we are all sinners. Overall, I won my case, and the term "goody two shoes stories" became part of the nomenclature for a while. We included plenty of adventure and exotic settings and loads of humor. Humor, at that time, was a distinctive of BJU Books, because neither Beka nor Rod and Staff would ever get you to crack a smile. But we had loads of humor in everything we produced for children. In the merciful provision of God, we had a team of illustrators who were excellent cartoonists and comedy illustrators. Since then, the other Christian publishers have caught up. There were still a couple stories I could not successfully eliminate, so about 5% of the book in its first release was predictable and boring. But I thought, overall, it was the best thing going in Christian reading books. And even if there have been some changes in the last 20 years, I bet it's still one of the best. Our goal was to put great reading material into the hands of children and inspire them to read. It really was important to us. Jeri Massi