Bartholomew's Passage : A Family Story for Advent {Books 4 Christmas}

Over the years my library of books has continued to grow and so has my Christmas book pile.  This year I've decided to share with you some of my favourites.

Bartholomew's Passage : A Family Story for Advent

• Format Paperback | 173 pages 
• Dimensions 215 x 230 x 9mm | 413g 
• Publication date 01 Sep 2009 
• Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S. 
• Language English 
• ISBN10 0825441730 
• ISBN13 9780825441738 
• Author - Arnold Ytreeide

 Bartholomew's Passage is an engaging story that guides families through the Advent season. Young Bartholomew's adventures start when Roman soldiers destroy his village and disperse his family, continue through his enslavement to a tyrannical master and his escape with his new friend Nathan, and end with a reunion with his family in Bethlehem. Along the way Bartholomew makes a new friend, a young boy named Jotham!

We celebrated the release of this books so much. We had been read Jotham's Journey a few times and had loved every minute of spending time with him.  Bartholomew was a welcome addition to our families new Advent tradtion.  Each year we purchase chocolate wafer sticks and enjoy them whilest reading our Advent book.

Jotham's Journey: A Storybook for Advent {Books 4 Christmas}

It was almost 21 years ago when I first heard about Jotham's Journey.  There were mixed reviews of forums.  It was during the time before the internet had mega bookstores or blogs with reviews. Timothy and Jane were little and I had just attended a GEMS (Godly Encouragement for MotherS) where I'd learned about taking Christmas back and creating memories, purposefully building Christmas traditions and I had also just discovered the Jesse Tree which started with a quest to know more and I ended up learning about Advent - The season of Anticipation and Hope.

Upon a little more research I took the plunge and purchased Jotham's Journey and I can see without a shadow of a doubt that it was the best decision ever.  If you are looking for a new family tradition and a book that will keep you on the edge of your seat with adventure and encouragement I highly recommend you add Jotham's Journey to your family Christmas book collection.

Jotham's Journey: A Storybook for Advent

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• Format Paperback | 
• 167 pages Dimensions 214 x 234 x 8mm | 395g 
• Publication date 26 Aug 2008 
• Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S. 
• Language English 
• Illustrations note Illustrations, black and white 
• ISBN10 0825441749 
• ISBN13 9780825441745 
• Author - Arnold Ytreeide

Personal Favourite Homeschool Products for 2018

As 2018 begins to draw to an end I've been reflecting on my third year as a Crew leader with the Homeschool Review Crew.  This year the Crew have had the priviledge of reviewing 66 products and have provided over 4,500 reviews for the greater homeschooling community.

At the end of each year the Crew vote to select their favourites in a number of catagories and I was pleased to see a few of my personal favourites selected as Blue Ribbon Award Winners. We reviewed a few things too this year and today I would like to share my top five products for 2018.

Audio Drama's by Heirloom Audio are by far my favourite homeschool discovery and St. Bartholowmew's Eve Audio Drama is my all time favourite from their Extraordinary Adventures of G.A. Henty Collection.

Our newest favourite history resource/curriculum is Drive Thru History® Adventures with host Dave Stotts.

CursiveLogic has made learning to write and improver cursive writing a pleasure.

I loved the practical advice I discovered in Taming the Lecture Bug.  (I think I may need a refresher).

GrammarPlanet has been a life saver.  

Be sure to pop on over to the Homeschool Review Crew blog to read what a few of my homeschool Crew mates Personal Favorite Products Reviewed for 2018 are.

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