Benjamin's Box: A Resurrection Story (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Jack Stockman (Illustrator), Barbara Rainey (Foreword) "ong ago, in the faraway land of Palestine, there lived a boy named Benjamin..." (more)
Key Phrases: treasure box

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The hero of this story for children in a boy named Benjamin who lives during the days of Jesus. When Jesus comes to Jerusalem, Ben decides to follow him and find out who He really is. At last he learns the good news--news that every child can share.

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What are the treasures in Benjamin's Box? Come along with Benjamin and see… Like all boys and girls, Benjamin is very, very curious. Unlike children of today, however, Benjamin lives during the days of Christ! When Jesus comes to Jerusalem, Benjamin decides to follow Him and find out who He really is. At first, he thinks Jesus is a teacher, then a king. At last, Benjamin learns the good news -- news that every child (and grown-up!) will want to share. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Hardcover: 40 pages
• Publisher: Multnomah Books (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: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #697,515 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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

By	J. L. Lebel (New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

19 of 19 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 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!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Church Reading, August 8, 2000

By	Lee Huddleston "Coyote" (Brentwood, TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

I heard a mother tell of reading this book to her children for Easter. My own son is now an adult ( no children yet) but I felt so strongly about the message of the book that I am buying it for my husband's grandchildren.