Alaska By The Way ~ Book Review

Having been interested in Alaska since I was younger, I was excited to learn that the By The Way Book Series was adding an Alaska book to their book line. We were introduced to the books from By The Way last year when we reviewed their Florida book.

By The Way books are written by Joy Budensiek. After hearing a speaker mention that parents don’t talk  to their children about God. She wanted to create a series of books that would help parents discuss God and his creation to their children. She has already written several state books and one country (Ireland) book.

Alaska is a beautiful full color, hard back book. It is forty eight pages long and tells the story of Alex and Lexi as they journey through the state. They visit many wonderful places and see many animals along the journey, such as harbor seals, humpback whales, and Kodiak bears.

The books is written in a story format,but each page has a lot of information. When I read this book with my seven year old daughter, I did not read it straight through. We took our time reading through the book and discussing the different animals and people and towns in Alaska. There are also so many beautiful pictures to look at that show children God’s creation.

We reviewed the Florida book last year, so my daughter was excited when we received this book in the mail. She was excited to look at the pictures  and learn about Alaska. At the beginning of the book, there is a page that shows some objects to look for while reading the book. My daughter loves looking through the book to try to find the pictures.

I love that there are Bible verses interspersed throughout the story. The pictures are beautiful and there is so much information to digest. My daughter and I did learn about kittiwakes. I had never heard of this bird before and it was interesting to learn more about them. We actually looked up a sound bite of their call to see how different it was from the seagulls we have around our beaches here in North Carolina.

I highly recommend these books because they are written from a Christian viewpoint and they contain so much valuable information. These books would be a great tool to use for a state or country study.