The Advent Jesse Tree: Devotions for Children and Adults to Prepare for the Coming of the Christ Child at Christmas

What a wonderful Advent book! My husband and I have been looking for an Advent book that we can make a part of our family's Christmas traditions---and this one is it. Not only is The Advent Jesse Tree rooted in Scripture, but it is also engaging for the young and old alike. Each day contains a devotional for children (that is not dumbed down yet simple enough for toddlers to understand) and a separate, more in-depth devotional for adults. Both are short and related to the day's Jesse Tree symbol, memory verse, scripture reading, and hymns or carols. We look forward to using this advent book year after year with our children!

We use this on combination with our magnetic Jesse tree, also purchased here. Super enjoyable, meaningful, and accessible for the whole family.

I would give this book more than 5 stars if possible! I love that there are little studies/devotions simple enough for children and then a slightly longer for adults. There are bible verses for look up and discussion questions appropriate for small children. The organization of the concepts presented in this devotion are absolutely wonderful from explaining the origins of earth, Jesus, through the family of Jesse all the way to commemorating the birth of the Savior of the world. My husband positively participates in the readings, bible look up, and discussion. My 7 year old son thanks me for the little family bible study. Review of the book is so easy. We have made the ornaments for a little tree and I show them to the older son, but do not keep them out for fear of them being destroyed by the 4 year old. Making the ornaments and so many of them can take some time so try to start well before November. Absolutely delightful and inspiring information...a must have for all families!

Really like this, because it tells many stories that leads to Christmas, not only about the birth of Jesus, but the events that leads you to the birth of Jesus. One of the reviews in this page had this ladies email that she said if we email her she will send the pictures that goes with the book so I didn’t mail that lady and she sent me the pictures which was great and we could follow through on the events with the symbols described in the book.

This is a wonderful little book that does it's job clearly and efficiently without any extra fluff. You get a section on "What is the Jesse Tree" followed by "How to Use Your Jesse Tree," then a convenient list of the ornaments. The chapters are organized like such: Day X Title Picture of the Symbol Symbol Description Memory Verse Hymns to Sing Then you get two more sections, one for kids, one for adults. Both follow the same format: Scripture verse address/es, Devotion (4-6 paragraphs), Questions (4-6), and a short prayer. Each day takes is on 2 or 3 pages total. Like I said, efficient. The only thing that I would have liked added would be if the entire scripture verses would be included, maybe even in the back of the book, especially for those folks who may not have a Bible on standby. Our plan is to use our Bible regardless, so it works out perfectly for us.

This is a great advent study for both kids and parents. It talks about Jesus and all that led to his birth. There are sections for kids and for parents. And The pictures are pretty simple to duplicate on whatever you need to make your Jesse Tree.

I like everything about this product! The devotionals are well written with lots of scriptures. The song suggestions every day are really nice and the line drawings at the beginning of each chapter are lovely. It is a simple book but I liked it much better than other Jesse tree devotionals that I've purchased. We will be using it every year!

I love this book! I read through it to see what it would be like before we started advent and was concerned it was too juvenile for my 9 and 7 year old boys...but it was perfect! My favorite part is the song suggestions- I just made an advent playlist on YouTube and we sing them before we do the devotional, it's a beautiful time with my family. I also print out the verses for the boys to read, I put them in our advent calendar for them to find. I decided not to do the ornaments to go along with it this year and it doesn't feel like it's missing anything. I am happy to have this to organize our advent season!

I was so pleased I bought it

I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I ordered this book, but it is exactly what I hoped it would be. There are devotions each day of advent for both children and adults. My kids are 2 and 4 and so far it is working well. My four year old understands the story and is able to answer the questions at the end of the devotion for him. It is well laid out, giving clear instructions for what symbol you will need each day for your Jesse tree. I like that each devotion is based heavily on the scripture reading as well. I am very happy with this book and look forward to revisiting it year after year.

It looks like a really good devotional, very clear which is for adults and for children. However I'm returning as it's printed and bound upside down.

The idea behind this book - of examining the lineage of Jesus leading up to Christmas is a good one and the creating of the baubles to hang on a tree is also good. However, the language used in the book was rather old fashioned. Also some of the days didn't seem to be following the lineage. The baubles were time consuming to make, though effective. As ever it is good to take time out to pause each day in Advent and remember the spiritual wonder of what the season is all about. The suggested readings were good but there were too many each day and the songs suggested were very antiquated. We adapted it to fit our family better. Advent is a very busy and time which time and this book, while good in much of it's content demands quite a lot of effort and time in its usage which was not ideal.