An Interactive Family Celebration of Advent - The Wonder of the Greatest Gift

Loved doing this advent calendar with my kids. The ornaments do not stay hanging on the tree well and are easy to lose. You will not be able to put this away after each day, all the ornaments would fall off if you did. You have to leave it up so be prepared to have a surface taken up for 25 days. The devotions are very short and appropriate for kids ages 2-5. If I do it again I'll use a small fake xmas tree to hang them on and skip the tree that comes with the book.

I received this book without the advent booklet and without the star tree topper. To say this is disappointing is an understatement. I have reached out to Ann Voskamp through social media and have not gotten a reply.

Ann Voskamp has never written or produced anything that I don't love. I was very disappointed with these Advent books I bought to give to my 4 and 6 year old grandchildren. It is not a book but a large, thick advent calendar with a fold our Christmas tree which they loved but the accompanying stories for each day thus far are too long and detailed for their interest levels. This was a lot of $$$ to pay for an Advent calendar. I am disappointed.

I received this book without the advent booklet and without the star tree topper. To say this is disappointing is an understatement. I have reached out to Ann Voskamp through social media and have not gotten a reply.

Ann Voskamp has never written or produced anything that I don't love. I was very disappointed with these Advent books I bought to give to my 4 and 6 year old grandchildren. It is not a book but a large, thick advent calendar with a fold our Christmas tree which they loved but the accompanying stories for each day thus far are too long and detailed for their interest levels. This was a lot of $$$ to pay for an Advent calendar. I am disappointed.

This is a beautiful book, but the theology is — at best — sketchy. I appreciate what Voskamp is trying to do, but her interpretation of scripture is almost untrue. We will use the tree, but will read the actual scripture and not the devotional.

A beautiful way to honor the true spirit of Christmas with your family.

This beautiful Advent calendar is a wonderful way to count down the days until Christmas morning. It's a heart-warming way for little ones to learn about Jesus. It comes with booklet that has a short, child-friendly daily reading that coincides with the "ornaments" that go on the pop-up Christmas tree after you open the big "book" for the first time. The big "book" with the pop up Christmas tree is designed to lay open on display from December 1-25. This would make a great gift for any family.

I received mine as a holiday gift from Tyndale House Publishers.

Love this! What a gift!
Love the devotional that comes with it.
We will definitely be starting a new family tradition with this one. I want to buy one for all of my kids so they have one when they start a family!

In several places in the book, Ann Voskamp alters the truths in scripture and also quotes of biblical characters that are not in the Bible, "He said..., she said..."--words that are not even a close reference or paraphrase of what the characters actually say in scripture. To say the character said something that was not said is dishonoring to God's word just to get her desired point across. She may see this a poetic license, I see it as a horrible misrepresentation of God's word. Her addition to scripture of God's tears making the great flood, and Rahab's red robe hung intended to show everyone she believes in God again is done for her desired message but at the expense of truth in scripture. Truth must always rule over a beautiful presentation. I'm disappointed that the hard part of the gospel, Jesus dealing with sin is not mentioned. She could have done that through the flood or 10 commandments or even through the name that was given to Him--Jesus.