October 2024 Book Club Recommendations

Our goal in the Foundation Worldview Book Club is to provide resources for you to have meaningful, literature-based worldview discussions with the children God has placed in your care. We work hard to choose books with insightful, truth-based themes. However, we know that our subscribers will have different convictions about the content they allow in their homes, churches, and classrooms. We encourage you to read the recommended books ahead of time, to ensure that the content fits within the framework you have already established in your ministry context. Please also note that by recommending a certain book, Foundation Worldview is not endorsing every work published by a particular author. Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, Foundation Worldview will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.

Book for Adults

Book for Children Ages 8-12

Question 1 - There were many times in the book when things seemed hopeless, yet the characters still chose to keep going and doing what was right. How might things have turned out differently if they had given in to hopelessness?

Discussion Guide - Discuss how The Mended Wood would not exist if any of the characters had given up hope. Then, discuss how important it is for us to continue being faithful to what God has called us to, even when things are difficult.

Question 2 - Even though her primary gift is healing, Emma leads her people well as Princess. What qualities make Emma a good leader?

Discussion Guide - Discuss how Emma is selfless, always putting the good of her people above her own. She is compassionate, always desiring to be with her suffering people, even when her council encourages her to hide herself. She is brave, never backing down from the battle.

Question 3 - Emma loved Picket, yet he chose to marry Weezie rather than her. How is Emma’s response to this disappointment different from Garten Longtreader’s response to Sween marrying his brother?

Discussion Guide - Discuss how Garten’s disappointment led him to betray his family and his people. He allowed his hurt and anger to blind him to what was true and good. Emma was similarly hurt, but she chose to be grateful for Picket and Weezie and focus on the good work she had been called to do as a healer.

Book for Children Ages 4-7

Question 1 - What are some of the untrue things Toad, James, and Ruth had been told about hell?

Discussion Guide - Discuss how they had heard that hell was a place of pitchforks, monsters, and lava, though other people told them it would be a more fun party than Heaven. Toad had heard that people go to hell for doing too many bad things.

Question 2 - What truths from the Bible did James and Ruth share with Toad?

Discussion Guide - Discuss how James and Ruth shared that the Bible uses words like fire, worms, forever, darkness, and torment to describe hell. They also shared that people go to hell for doing one bad thing - rejecting God.

Question 3 - What good news did James and Ruth share with Toad?

Discussion Guide - Read Romans 10:9-11. Discuss how the Bible promises that everyone who turns from their sin and trusts in Jesus will be rescued from their sin and spend eternity with God in the New Heaven and New Earth.

Bonus Question - If your child has gone through Foundation Attributes of God Curriculum, ask, “What attributes of God are seen through people spending eternity in the New Heaven and New Earth or in hell?”

Discussion Guide - DIscuss how we see God’s mercy and grace in rescuing His children from their sin. We see His justice is punishing those who have rejected his mercy and grace.