Even Me: The Adventure of Two Girls Reaching Out to Share God's Love

by Adrienne Camp, Brit Cardarelli (Artist)

Overview

Open Children’s Eyes and Hearts to the World Around Them

Even Me follows kid sisters Bella and Arie on their mission trip to Africa. Join this pair as they prepare for their long journey, travel to their faraway destination, meet and serve the people of Uganda, and share the spiritual lessons the Lord taught them along the way.

As Bella and Arie’s adventure unfolds, children will experience a new culture and see what a short-term mission trip looks like, from fundraising to service projects to sharing about Jesus. They will learn that regardless of culture, class, or color, all people are made in God’s image and loved equally by Him.

Most important, young ones will discover that God can use them to accomplish great things. Use this story to spark meaningful conversations about His purpose and plan for children’s lives.   
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780736979283
Publisher:	Harvest House Publishers
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Adrienne Camp is a South African singer and songwriter. She was the lead singer of the Christian rock band the Benjamin Gate and later recorded two solo albums. She is married to fellow musician Jeremy Camp. She and Jeremy have two daughters, Isabella and Arianne, and one son, Egan. She is also the author of children’s book Even Me, as well as a contributor to For Girls Like You magazine.
 


Brit Cardarelli is an illustrator, designer, and the author of Naturehood: The Adventures of Treeann. Brit is currently creative director for the baby and kids’ goods company Sticks and Stripes. She has also worked as a designer and stylist for television shows and movies.
 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Even Me stirs a deep sense of faith and divine adventure in a young heart. Its much-needed message resists today's self-focused cultural narrative and encourages readers to look upward to God and then outward toward others. As a mother of sons, I’m grateful to Adie Camp for giving us a beautifully crafted book that tells the story of her own family’s journey and inviting us to take one of our own. With clever rhyme and a razor-sharp message, Even Me will ready you and your children for a spiritual and practical quest worth taking. Read it yourself and then sit the little one you love on your lap and read it out loud all over again. You’ll be so glad you did.”
—Priscilla Shirer, Bible teacher and author

Editorial Reviews

Even Me stirs a deep sense of faith and divine adventure in a young heart. Its much-needed message resists today's self-focused cultural narrative and encourages readers to look upward to God and then outward toward others. As a mother of sons, I’m grateful to Adie Camp for giving us a beautifully crafted book that tells the story of her own family’s journey and inviting us to take one of our own. With clever rhyme and a razor-sharp message, Even Me will ready you and your children for a spiritual and practical quest worth taking. Read it yourself and then sit the little one you love on your lap and read it out loud all over again. You’ll be so glad you did.”
—Priscilla Shirer, Bible teacher and author

From the Publisher

2019-11-24
Adrienne Camp, who is best known as the spouse of Christian music artist Jeremy Camp, teams up with her daughters in her debut picture book.

Two blonde-haired, blue-eyed white girls are invited on the trip of a lifetime. After fundraising by a variety of means, the girls set off for Uganda and are immediately wrapped in love from the native Ugandans whose lives are "so hard and deprived." Though their lifestyles are quite different, the girls realize that they and the "less fortunate" share similar dreams for the future. As they prepare to head home they also acknowledge that there is still much work to be done for the people they have met on their journey. Despite the glowing praise from African American evangelist Priscilla Shirer on the front cover, the book borders on disaster, from the renderings of the stiff, bug-eyed children to the stumbling verse: "Our hearts were burdened to think of all they go through. / We take things for granted, having so much while they have so few." What images and words do ring out through the haze with any clarity speak less of sharing Christ's love in the developing world and more of white-savior poverty voyeurism. There is no evidence of anything more than the shallowest of cultural exchange, and in fact the book is emblematic of the many concerns thoughtful leaders have expressed regarding short-term mission trips.

Self-congratulatory tourism masquerading as evangelical humanitarianism. (Picture book. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews