Review: The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls
I'm forever looking for engaging, quality reading material for my 5-year-old Mister Man, who is an advanced reader for his age. Though he can read beyond his years, his social/emotional self is still only 5, and he needs what he reads to nurture him at that level.
Hooray for The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls series from Worthy Kids/Ideals!
We received the first two books in the series: The Beginning (Book #1) and Race to the Ark (Book #2). Each book is about 100 pages long (maybe just a hair over) with occasional black and white illustrations. Mister Man read each book in just over an hour.
He devoured them, coming out of his reading trance to give the rest of the family play-by-play updates about the action and adventure that fed his little-boy heart.
I like that his heart and mind are filled with Bible stories and Bible characters as heroes, and the kids who star in the stories are nice kids.
Mister Man says about The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls: The Beginning (Book #1):
It's about when Peter, Mary, and Hank (the dog) go back to the time when God created the earth. There was a pot of scrolls in their uncle's library. While they were asleep, they heard a lion's roar from the library. They went into the library and found a book which had a tree on it. When they pulled it out, a secret room was revealed. Hank ran into the secret room. Peter shouted, "No, Hank!" but it was too late. Hank dug his claws into the floor and skidded across the floor right toward the pot which knocked all of the scrolls out.
When they cleaned up, they cleaned up all of the scrolls except one. When Peter was walking over to it, to put it away, he tripped and almost fell onto the pot of scrolls. Mary moved it out of the way just in time. But Peter fell onto the ground, and the scroll had a red seal, and it broke when Peter hit the ground.
Then they went back in time.
They were floating in dark air. It was really dark, and it felt slippery. They heard a voice--God's voice. He said, "Let there be light." (When he says that, it's bigger than the other words. The other words are small, but God's are bigger.)
Light--only light!!
They watched God make the rest of the world. And they met a snake in the garden--the snake that Adam and Eve met. Adam and Eve obeyed the snake.
A monkey took the scroll from Peter. It ran off to one of the trees. Peter was in a tree with the monkey. It ran to the tree where the snake was . . . I don't know what the snake did to the monkey.
This was a problem because they needed the scroll because they could only get back home when they finished the secret of the scroll--translating it. Michael the angel told them they could get home by translating the scroll. He helped them.
I wasn't scared in this book like I was in the other book (Book 2, below) because people weren't mean to Hank, Mary, and Peter in this book. I was glad when they got the scroll back because they only had 7 days to translate the scroll!
Mom! It was written in Hebrew at first! The scroll was in Hebrew.
When they translated the scroll, they got to go home.
I liked this book because they got to go home again.
This book teaches you to be patient because they had to wait until sunset to find out the next word on the scroll.
Mister Man says about The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls: Race to the Ark (Book #2):
In this book they meet the Dark Ruler. The flood comes, but they don't get on the ark. They translated the scroll while the flood was running, so they got to go home. Hank was wet when they got back to the library, so he shaked (sic) himself off in the library! (He said, laughing)
The kids opened up another scroll, and this time they went back to Noah and the Ark.
They met two mean guys . . . and the Dark Ruler.
I was angry and scared in this book. I was angry that the two mean guys locked the kids and Hank in a dungeon. I was scared that they would never get out!
But they did. Do you know how?
Michael.
He has a flaming sword. He broke the chains that locked the dungeon closed.
The kids were just trying to get a new hinge for the door because the elephants broke the door, and the mean guys found them and locked them up. They said that Noah was crazy, but actually the monkeys on the ark are crazy.
I felt happy that Michael saved the kids.
I really want to read the next book . . . I wonder where it will take them!!!!
I'm pleased with these exciting, scripturally based, time-travel adventures for young readers. So is Mister Man. When I asked him if he thought other kids would like reading the books, he made a sad face and said, "But I don't want to give these books away!"
I laughed and said he could keep these, but that other kids would buy the books for themselves.
He sighed in relief, saying, "Yeah, other kids would like to read these books."
To see what other families have to say about the first two books in the series The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls click here or on the banner below.
Hooray for The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls series from Worthy Kids/Ideals!
We received the first two books in the series: The Beginning (Book #1) and Race to the Ark (Book #2). Each book is about 100 pages long (maybe just a hair over) with occasional black and white illustrations. Mister Man read each book in just over an hour.
He devoured them, coming out of his reading trance to give the rest of the family play-by-play updates about the action and adventure that fed his little-boy heart.
I like that his heart and mind are filled with Bible stories and Bible characters as heroes, and the kids who star in the stories are nice kids.
Mister Man says about The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls: The Beginning (Book #1):
It's about when Peter, Mary, and Hank (the dog) go back to the time when God created the earth. There was a pot of scrolls in their uncle's library. While they were asleep, they heard a lion's roar from the library. They went into the library and found a book which had a tree on it. When they pulled it out, a secret room was revealed. Hank ran into the secret room. Peter shouted, "No, Hank!" but it was too late. Hank dug his claws into the floor and skidded across the floor right toward the pot which knocked all of the scrolls out.
When they cleaned up, they cleaned up all of the scrolls except one. When Peter was walking over to it, to put it away, he tripped and almost fell onto the pot of scrolls. Mary moved it out of the way just in time. But Peter fell onto the ground, and the scroll had a red seal, and it broke when Peter hit the ground.
Then they went back in time.
They were floating in dark air. It was really dark, and it felt slippery. They heard a voice--God's voice. He said, "Let there be light." (When he says that, it's bigger than the other words. The other words are small, but God's are bigger.)
Light--only light!!
They watched God make the rest of the world. And they met a snake in the garden--the snake that Adam and Eve met. Adam and Eve obeyed the snake.
A monkey took the scroll from Peter. It ran off to one of the trees. Peter was in a tree with the monkey. It ran to the tree where the snake was . . . I don't know what the snake did to the monkey.
This was a problem because they needed the scroll because they could only get back home when they finished the secret of the scroll--translating it. Michael the angel told them they could get home by translating the scroll. He helped them.
I wasn't scared in this book like I was in the other book (Book 2, below) because people weren't mean to Hank, Mary, and Peter in this book. I was glad when they got the scroll back because they only had 7 days to translate the scroll!
Mom! It was written in Hebrew at first! The scroll was in Hebrew.
When they translated the scroll, they got to go home.
I liked this book because they got to go home again.
This book teaches you to be patient because they had to wait until sunset to find out the next word on the scroll.
Mister Man says about The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls: Race to the Ark (Book #2):
In this book they meet the Dark Ruler. The flood comes, but they don't get on the ark. They translated the scroll while the flood was running, so they got to go home. Hank was wet when they got back to the library, so he shaked (sic) himself off in the library! (He said, laughing)
The kids opened up another scroll, and this time they went back to Noah and the Ark.
They met two mean guys . . . and the Dark Ruler.
I was angry and scared in this book. I was angry that the two mean guys locked the kids and Hank in a dungeon. I was scared that they would never get out!
But they did. Do you know how?
Michael.
He has a flaming sword. He broke the chains that locked the dungeon closed.
The kids were just trying to get a new hinge for the door because the elephants broke the door, and the mean guys found them and locked them up. They said that Noah was crazy, but actually the monkeys on the ark are crazy.
I felt happy that Michael saved the kids.
I really want to read the next book . . . I wonder where it will take them!!!!
I'm pleased with these exciting, scripturally based, time-travel adventures for young readers. So is Mister Man. When I asked him if he thought other kids would like reading the books, he made a sad face and said, "But I don't want to give these books away!"
I laughed and said he could keep these, but that other kids would buy the books for themselves.
He sighed in relief, saying, "Yeah, other kids would like to read these books."
To see what other families have to say about the first two books in the series The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls click here or on the banner below.
Sounds like a delightful book!
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