Benjamin's Box: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs

I used this book for school and the children really enjoyed it. It explains the Easter story so well for them.

Arrived on time and in perfect condition as described. It's a great book, lovely pictures, and I went out and bought myself some eggs so I can read to my children. Though it will have to be next Easter, as it took so long to arrive, Easter had been and gone.

A lovely book for the little ones, attractive illustrations and something to treasure.

Wanted a book to explain The Easter Story to young children. When used with a set of resurrection eggs it is a perfect way to tell the story that keeps children engaged and interested.

Excellent service - book received in good order and time. This is ideal for young children and tells the story of Easter in relation to a small boy named Benjamin, in an easy to understand and interesting way

A great book to use for an outreach event. We made up our own ressurrection eggs and got the children to sit down, each holding an egg (actually, we had two of each since we had about 20 children). When it came to their number, the children got to crack their shell and tell everyone what was in their egg. It would help, though, for the story to be followed up by the easter story directly from the Bible. Give each child something with the easter story to bring home to read with their family.

It's great story for children for Easter. I bought it 3 years ago and my 4 and 5.5 y old were very interested and it helped them to understand the Resurrection story. It is a tale for kids with imagination (not in comic style, child needs imagination to understand words, not only colorful picture) and some religious knowledge (to catch it's just symbolic Easter story). This year kids are going through this book and eggs by themselves - my 8y old is reading and 6.5 is opening and interprets the eggs fillings. I saw also people complain that eggs' filling do not match the book... ?? Symbolism in eggs whose are matching the book is quite obvious and easy to explain even toa toddler: Resurrection Eggs: 1. LITTLE DONKEY - not "piece of fur" which could confuse younger kids but obvious animal - Palm Sunday and Jesus on the donkey - CLEAR 2. SILVER COINS - Judas and his silver coins - CLEAR 3. CUP - the Last Supper - CLEAR 4. PRAYING HANDS - praying in the garden, sleeping Apostles - CLEAR 5. WHIP - quite realistic Roman flagellum model - only problem is to explain to the child the flogging torture itself - CLEAR 6. ROOSTER - "This very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times". - couldn't be CLEARER 7. CROWN OF THORNS - mocking and crowning with thorn wreath - CLEAR 8. NAILS IN THE CROSS - two crossed nail, beautiful symbolic cross - CLEAR 9. SPEAR - spear in Jesus' side - CLEAR 10. LINEN CLOTH - Jesus wrapped and put into the tomb (good base for story about Turin artifact etc ) - CLEAR 11. STONE - stone as a symbolic piece of stone cave tomb - CLEAR 12. EMPTY - no artifact because HE IS RISEN! I think clear as well...

A wonderful way to tell the Easter story to children, especially as it links to the Resurrection eggs and gives a practical guide to the Easter story..

To start the season off, I finally decided to buy Resurrection Eggs for my family and CCD class. Call me lazy because you could surely make these yourself, but I liked having them done for me instead of searching for the pieces for inside the eggs.... Plus the resource book included came in useful. If you want an awesome resource to go along with the eggs, you need this book (Benjamin's Box). The story is great and matches the eggs perfectly. It is nicely illustrated and each page tells a story to match the item in the egg. The kids seem to enjoy the story and hearing it from the point of view of a little boy. I highly recommend getting this book to compliment the eggs. My kids ages 5 and 8 really enjoy this book. I am also sharing it with my third grade CCD class and they love it too. I hid the eggs around my house and told my kids to find them but not open them. Once we had all 12 eggs we took turns reading a page from the book and opening the egg that went along with the page. I used Benjamin's Box to help me create a printable to match the Resurrection Eggs activity. If you search Teaching Heart Mom on Google and then go to Easter you will see it. You can download it free here. It is five pages. The last page (foldable eggs) you will need to print three times on colored card stock. All other pages get printed once on regular paper. My kids enjoyed making the books and we will refer to them through the season.

I bought this for my grandson's first Easter. What a lovely book. We will read it often for many years!

This story is wonderful. My 4 and 10 year olds love it. One problem - however this problem is NOT with this great book- was that after reading reviews I purchased the "Resurrection Eggs" from Family Life to go with it. The story matches up fairly well but there are a few pages that don't have eggs in that set, and there are a few eggs that don't match the pages. That is because they do NOT go together. The Resurrection Eggs are a wonderful set and have a little booklet inside that tells the story of each egg- not quite as well told as Benjamins Box. The Benjamin's Box book is an awesome book and at the top of each page shows a color of egg and a topic (I don't have it in front of me, so for example blue egg, whip). I'm not sure if there was a set of eggs at one time that was sold with this book. It doesn't matter. My 10 year old and I decided that next year, we make our own Resurrection Eggs! We will get the right color eggs and scavenge around until we can fill them to match the book and store them in an egg carton:) Then we will have two sets of Resurrection Eggs to choose from each year and two books. We are totally happy with our purchase of this book. I got my misinformation from some other reviews. But if I hadn't, we wouldn't have these two great products and a fun plan for 2015!