story of the world

I realize this may not be a popular opinion, but I could not read this to my kids. I tried to use book one but it bothered me that it did not start at creation. I figured I could get past that, it just doesnt start at the beginning, no big deal. The first chapter is about nomads and it felt very secular to me. So many people love the book that I felt I really needed to give it a fair chance. I skipped ahead. I noticed the author only capitalizes God when quoting from the Bible. When referring to the God of the Israelites in her narrative it is lower case. Annoying, but lets keep trying. I skipped to the narrative of the Exodus. While she does say “the Exodus shows monotheism winning out over polytheism, because the one god (lowercase g in the book) of Israel was able to conquer the many gods of Egypt,” she does not give God the credit. She then ends the narrative with “Egypt, which had been powerful for a long time, was once again growing weak. …even a band of slaves without weapons could escape from the clutches of the Egyption army.” She does not credit God with their delivery, in my opinion. I stopped reading after this, I just did not feel she was giving God the glory. Maybe the later books are different since they dont try to re-write Biblical history, but I have a bade taste in my mouth from book one. Just my opinion, a ton of folks love these books, I am the oddball, as usual.

We love the books, we don’t use the activity guide, we just read and narrate. I’m hoping next year to add in Jay Wile’s science books, as they dovetail nicely with SOTW.