Benjamin's Box: A Resurrection Story [Hardcover]

Melody Carlson (Author), Jack Stockman (Illustrator), Barbara Rainey (Foreword)

Book Description

A young boy follows Jesus through Jerusalem, collecting mementos to share with others and to remind him of Jesus's teachings. Ages 5 to 10.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Melody Carlson has written more than 200 books for teens, women, and children. Before publishing, Melody traveled around the world, volunteered in teen ministry, taught preschool, raised two sons, and worked briefly in interior design and later in international adoption. 'I think real-life experiences inspire the best fiction,' she says. Her wide variety of books seems to prove this theory.

Jack Stockman designs paper airplanes and snowmen. He has a whole collection of tin toys, yo-yos, and kites, but only one wife, one daughter, one son, and one daughter-in-law. He loves them all. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Multnomah Books; First Edition edition (January 31, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576731391
• ISBN-13: 978-1576731390
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,308,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Melody Carlson has written around 200 books for teens, women and children. That's a lot of books, but mostly she considers herself a "storyteller." Her books range from serious issues like schizophrenia (Finding Alice) to lighter topics like house-flipping (A Mile in My Flip-Flops) but most of the inspiration behind her fiction comes right out of real life. Her young adult novels (Diary of a Teenage Girl, TrueColors etc.) appeal to teenage girls around the world. Her annual Christmas novellas become more popular each year. She's won a number of awards (including the Rita and Gold Medallion) and some of her books have been optioned for film/TV. Carlson has two grown sons and makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and yellow Lab dog. To find out more about Melody Carlson, visit her website at http://www.melodycarlson.com/

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79 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kids LOVE This!, April 6, 1998

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edmomqby (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Benjamin's Box: A Resurrection Story (Hardcover)

This book is most effectively used with the Resurrection Eggs sold by FAMILY LIFE. The egg carton contains 12 colorful plastic Easter eggs and each has a small item in it which corresponds to an event which happened to Jesus from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday.

Benjamin's Box is a story about a young boy who follows Jesus during this most important week and he picks up small reminders of the events and puts them in a special box his grandfather gave him. The pages in the book have a colored Easter egg at the top which corresponds to an egg in the Resurrection Egg package. The child finds that egg and opens it to discover the item that Benjamin just picked up.

I used the Benjamin's Box/Resurrection Egg combination with my 5 year old son's Church School class on Palm Sunday. THEY LOVED IT!!! I hid the eggs and let them find them. We then sat down, read the story, and whoever had the corresponding egg for a particular page opened it told how what they found went along with the story. When the story was done, we mixed the eggs all up and opened them at random - the kids remembered how the items related to the story of Jesus after listening to it just one time! I was very impressed (and so were their parents).

I can't recommend this book and the Resurrection Eggs highly enough.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Share this book with your kids!, April 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Benjamin's Box: A Resurrection Story (Hardcover)

This book is a tradition for our family -- our kids eagerly anticipate getting it out of the "Easter" box every spring. The illustrations are very beautiful yet very kid-friendly -- I *loved* the fact that they show children who (despite their era-appropriate clothing) look like any child you'll see today riding down the street on a skateboard. Also, Jesus has dark hair -- the illustrator didn't turn our thoroughly Jewish Lord into a blond haired, blue eyed European as so many artists do. Kudos for that! I can't recommend this book highly enough!

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GREEEEAAAAAT ..... BUT, February 9, 2005

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Carl of Veritas Inc. (Dayton, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Benjamin's Box (Hardcover)

If you are Catholic this book has one sentence in the Last Supper section that refers to the Eucharist as "symbolic." But the book is so great otherwise parents just black out one word and use it. GREAT KIDS BOOK!