The One Year Book of Devotions for Preschoolers

If you want your children to connect their daily lives to Biblical principals in language your preschooler will understand, then this is the book for you. The author, a speaker and writer for MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) grabbed my son's attention from the first sentence. The beauty of the short, but sweet devotions is that they are interactive. Simple questions get right to the heart of the day's story and offer a chance for your child to share their feelings. Here's an example from December 27th's devotional titled, "Win or Lose" "Parker and Jack are having a snowball fight. Each boy hopes he will win! Do you like to win when you play games? Everyone likes to win. But when you play games, everyone loses now and then. Did you know there is something you can never lose? You can never loes God's love. No matter who may be against you. God will always be on your side." Notice that this is a Winter story? I've found that the more relevant the situation the more my son get's out of our devotional time. The day about "Working for Fun" caught his attention since he loves to bake cookies: "Kaitlyn, Jack and Parker are making Christmas cookies. It will take a lot of work. But when the cookies are done, they will get a reward - they'll have cookies to eat together! The Bible says that hard work often brings happy rewards. When the kids eat their cookies, do you think they will be happy they worked so hard?" Seeds are being planted in my son and that makes me one happy Mama! But what about actual scripture verses, you ask? Not to worry! At the bottom of each page is a Bible verse and a prayer. The prayers rhymes, which I love. I have my son repeat every few words after me. "Lord, when there's work that needs to be done, help me remember that work can be fun. (December 18th's Working for Fun devotional)"

This book was given to my 3+1/2 year old for Christmas, 2007. We have been reading the one page devotions every night before going to bed. I really enjoy the short sweet messages, prayers and scriptures. My daughter talks about Parker, Zoe, Kaitlyn and Jack as if they are a part of our family now! The illustations are adorable. A few words of caution...some of the readings bring up subject matter that might prompt a few questions from your little one (Holy Spirit, Heaven, death etc.) I would certainly recommend buying this for a parent and child to share together.

My son received this for his third birthday and he loves it! We read it every night at bedtime and he always asks for more. He loves looking at the illustrations on his own, too. It's a very simple but effective way to introduce a child to daily devotions. We have bought it as a gift for several of his little friends, too.

We end each night's book reading with the daily reading from this book - my girls love it they ask for more each night. The stories are relatable to children (and adults, alike) - there are questions within the stories that you can choose to ask your preschooler or not - and the pictures are just right for little ones. We end by reading the short Bible verse at the bottom of the page and our girls "repeat after me" the small rhyming prayer at the end, that also relates to the story. We are finding this is a wonderful way to introduce the Bible to our small children (3.5 years and 2 years).

This book is awesome. I like this one even better than the original 365 Blesssings for Young Children. This book has different daily stories and devotions all with the same charactors as in the I'm Zoey, I'm Kaitlyn, I'm Parker... books. Very sweet. Excellent for 3 year olds.