{"id":1527,"date":"2014-11-19T22:56:24","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T04:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yoshee08.com\/blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2014-11-19T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T04:56:24","slug":"every-picture-tells-a-story-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/homeschool\/every-picture-tells-a-story-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Picture Tells a Story – Book Review!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20141119_083508\"<\/a>We reviewed\u00a0the book, “Every Picture Tells a Story,” Volume 1, Bereishis, by Chaim Natan Firszt, along with the corresponding coloring book. Here is my review.<\/p>\n

The book is an illustrated, hard cover book on the weekly parsha with Torah verses and commentaries geared for every age. There are beautiful, hand drawn, full colored pictures on the left side of the page while the right side has a\"20141119_083527\"<\/a> verse\/verses from the Torah as well as a short commentary below it, both in Hebrew and then in English. \u00a0The pictures\u00a0and texts go in order of the weekly parshiyos and include the source\u00a0of\u00a0the verses. Above the picture is the name of the parsha as well as a short phrase describing the picture, again both in Hebrew and English. The corresponding coloring book is the outline of the pictures found in the main book.<\/p>\n

When I\u00a0opened it up, I found it to be a very simple and clean layout. It is a very nice book to look at (and I would like to say\u00a0that the text\u00a0had almost a majestic feel,) and was very easy to read. The author took a few\u00a0select main points from each parsha to highlight. I liked the fact that there was one idea per page with the selected verse(s) containing one thought, a commentary underneath to go with it and a nice color picture for \"20141119_083546<\/a>reinforcement. The only thing that I found a\u00a0little annoying, was the fact that the Hebrew verses had nekudos (vowels,) but the commentary underneath did not. The English translation was very nice. One nice thing about it is that for words that are commonly used\u00a0by their\u00a0Hebrew name in English (i.e. the names of people), the first occurrence of\u00a0the word includes the English word in brackets. For the rest of the of the time, just the Hebrew is used. However, all Hebrew words are found in the\u00a0glossary at the back of the book.<\/p>\n

The book can be enjoyed by everyone (I enjoyed reading it,) for the language was not watered down and the text is short enough to keep the attention of the younger children. I have been reading it to my 5 year old son, going over the weekly parsha several times a week, and he enjoys looking at the pictures, even after I read the selected pages for the parsha. My 11 and 12 year old also looked at it and\"20141119_083538\"<\/a> enjoyed it but found it was good as a once or twice reading book only. What I really enjoyed, and it will be something that we all will be using often, are the pages at the end of the book. There are various wonderful family trees with the Hebrew dates, as well as a beautiful chart about the Shevatim (the 12 tribes) and their zodiac places.<\/p>\n

\"20141119_083615\"<\/a>I think that younger children will benefit the most from the book for it takes just a few\u00a0main ideas from\u00a0the parsha using short passages and commentaries, however the charts at the back are wonderful and extremely useful for all of us. When I am\u00a0learning parsha with my 5 year old son, I do\u00a0not use this as his only source of learning because it it limiting as a summary of the \"20141119_083711\"<\/a>parsha but we read from “Every Picture Tells a Story” afterwards because\u00a0it focuses on a few main points and then goes into some detail and explanations so he learns a little bit more but is not overwhelmed. All in all, I really like the book and do recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We reviewed\u00a0the book, “Every Picture Tells a Story,” Volume 1, Bereishis, by Chaim Natan Firszt, along with the corresponding coloring book. Here is my review. The book is an illustrated, hard cover book on the weekly parsha with Torah verses and commentaries geared for every age. There are beautiful, hand drawn, full colored pictures on … Continue reading “Every Picture Tells a Story – Book Review!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[84,85,95,115,179,192,367,516,520],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ErqW-oD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atorahlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}