The Parable of the Lily
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We’re a fan of Liz Curtis Higgs’ children’s books around here—each of her parable stories center around “the farmer,” making them extra delightful to this farmer’s family. So I was excited when I found out that this month’s review options from Tommy Nelson Publishers included The Parable of the Lily.
This story begins with the farmer’s daughter receiving a mysterious letter in the mail, promising a special gift. But when the gift came, it was not what she was expecting. So she put it on a shelf in the basement and forgot about it.
What happens next is the miracle of Easter told through The Parable of the Lily. At the bottom of each page of this oversized board book, an applicable Bible verse is printed in the border. And the illustrations by Nancy Munger jump out of the page with their cheerfulness, making me long for spring.
And the story? It made my farmer’s daughters shout in excitement, “Easter is coming!”
Tommy Nelson Publishers is giving away a copy of The Parable of the Lily to one of you! To enter the giveaway, comment and tell me one way you have used to teach little ones about Easter (or how you remember learning about Easter growing up). (Giveaway ends March 23. Click here to preview the book. Congratulations to åslaug for winning a copy of The Parable of the Lily!)
(Sharing this post with everyone in the March of Books Children’s Books Review link-up over at YLCF this week…)
We used the resurrection eggs before, but now I teach older kids in church so we usually just read from the scripture making sure they know it all began with the birth and that you can’t have one without the other!
We’ve done the resurrection eggs before. Usually we just read from Bible storybooks and talk about Easter that way.
Sounds like a really neat book 😉 I can’t quite remember how we learned about Easter when I was little#, but I do remember that for the longest time we (my brother, sister and I) would make an Easter story display with our Duplo Legos. There was a grey horse that worked as the donkey, and I think Jesus was usually the Duplo-guy with a yellow shirt and blue pants with a brown sixpence hat 😉 then we made palm leaves and robes for the ground and the people out of paper…
We did resurrection cookies.
I’ve read that book before! We don’t have it as a family, so I haven’t read it in a while. When I did read it, though, I asolutely loved it!
Resurrection Eggs with my 3 year old Cubbies in Awana. 🙂
my niece has this book! she really likes the pictures. 🙂