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Cam’s Review: A Little Bit of Faith

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After finishing reading A Little Bit of Faith, I’ve asked Cameron to answer a few questions for me.  I’m typing her responses up word for word.

1. Did you enjoy this book?

Yes. I didn’t know if I would, but it was really good.  I thought I would read one chapter each day, but sometimes I read 3 or 4.

2. Would you like to read future books in the Precious Girls Club series?

There’s going to be more?  Where?   (I respond, I don’t know, but I’m sure we can find them on the Internet) Can we look now?

3. Why do you think you liked this book?

I felt like the little girl in the book last year when I was a new student.  It was hard to do my work because I felt so alone. And I liked all the pictures. They were really pretty and helped me know what was going on sometimes.

4. What was your favorite part of the book?

When all the kids came to the club meeting.

5. Did anything surprise you about the book?

I thought everyone would come to the very first meeting, and I was sad when they didn’t. I thought books should have a happy ending, but it did after the second meeting.

6. If you had to tell your friends what this book was about what would you say?

It’s about a little girl who moves and she is sad because she can’t do her math homework and she has no friends.  Her guardian angel Faith keeps her cheered up the best she can. And her mom and aunt give her a bracelet. Then she tries to start a club but the kids don’t come because they don’t know her. Then when she starts to talk to the other kids, they like her and come to her club.  Now they are all friends.

7. What did you learn after reading this book?

That you have to not be shy and go ahead and talk to the kids if you want to make friends with them.

8. What did you learn about God?

I didn’t know He made the rainbow to tell us He wouldn’t ever flood it here again. I’m going to tell my Sunday School teacher about that next week.

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There you go – Cameron’s first blog review.  She really did enjoy this book. I was surprised at how much she remembered each day.  Before we started reading, I would ask her what had happened last, and she could tell me almost everything all the way back to the beginning.  It stuck wit her.  We will be investigating to see about continuing to buy these as the new ones come out.

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Mom Review: A Little Bit of Faith

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As promised, I want to provide you with my review for you the book, “A Little Bit of Faith,” from this mom’s perspective.  As mentioned previously, I thought it was a great book, and we’ll be purchasing future books in the series for sure.

One of the first things I really liked about it is that it is a chapter book so it will in fact push my 8 year old daughter as it’s not something she will sit down and read in one sitting. So she’ll have to retain the story until our next reading session to be able to follow the story.

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Another thing I liked is that while it is on her reading level (and in fact I was surprised that she knew some of the words as she was reading it to me), it does push and occasionally throw in words that are not common to her so we get to chat about them and I can see if she can tell meaning by context clues (which thanks to the great writing of Cindy Kenney) she was. Some of the words that threw her right off the bat were the names of some of the states.  She had not heard of Kansas or Nebraska so she didn’t quite get them right. (Later after reading that night, we discussed that Mommy actually lived in Kansas for a little while when she was little). Another word? Sternly. She pronounced it fine, but something about the way she said it, I knew she didn’t know what it meant.

Third – the inclusion of God and guardian angels in the storyline.  I loved that not only was it mentioned as part of everyday use but also that it was used on such a great age appropriate level – that we are all special in our own ways. When I first realized that there would be some mention of God in this book, I admit to being worried.  I didn’t really want this to turn into the focus of the book as I knew that would probably not keep my daughter’s attention for long.  I was so relieved to see how it was just used here and there and in very appropriate, non-religion specific ways.

Fourth – short chapters.  With a young daughter who wants to love to read but is still trying to decide if she actually is, I was thankful for the shorter chapters.  We frequently define our reading by chapters. I stop her at each chapter to quiz her about her understanding. Sometimes we take turn reading chapters so that she doesn’t get too worked up in the reading and missing parts of the story.  And with chapters that are only 7 pages of actual writing, that was a very reasonable task.

And finally, the pictures.  While personally I wouldn’t want to read a book with this many pictures, I suspected Cameron would like them, and I was right. I immediately noticed that when we flipped a page, when there was a picture (which is very frequently) she would pause to look at it and take it in. For a reader who is just moving into chapter books, this is a great resource as it helps them with their comprehension and it keeps their interest. The artwork in this book is amazing too (see the few pictures I posted).

I really do think this is one of the best children’s books I’ve seen come out in a long time. I am hoping that enough are released soon that we can in fact read several of them before Cameron moves up in her reading level to the point that these are not interesting anymore.

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