Hi all. We are looking to do a study with our 9 year old daughter. A daily devotional or something, something that is not highly theological but interesting for kids, she is a bit on the higher intelligence side so I’d probably be looking for more 11-12 years old.
I’d like Jesus to be the focus of the study.
As an aside, the subject of hell was brought up and she said “God wouldn’t do that right dad”. So I know that we’re on the right track. 
I bought a Max Lucado devotional for my first niece’s baptism a few weeks ago – Bro and Ishy had it on their wishlist – but I didn’t get to read it much myself.
I reaaaalllly wanted to get one or another (or both 
) of two kid Bible dictionaries, since supposedly they had gotten her an adult Bible (though when I asked about that Bro didn’t seem to think they had gotten her one) – I got my 1970s NASB back when I was her age (7+) and a dictionary would have been nice though me being me I worked it out okay. 
However, I since our local LifeWay didn’t have them in stock I couldn’t give you an impression on them.
(The LifeWay did have a really nice set of leather-hardback printed Schaff’s History of the Christian Church, which greatly delighted me by the way – I came close to buying that for myself and only avoided it because I have them all on pdf already.)
I did buy Lydia a small hardback Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook, but Mom thought it might be a tad too old for her. I thought it was great, and it has tons of pictures and introduces a lot of topics in short paragraphs – nothing in favor of universalism but nothing against it either so far as I could tell on a thumb-through. Not at all a devotional, of course, but I’m not much of a devotional guy anyway. That little thing ought to be cake for anyone already at tween-reading-age who wants to dig into various archaeological and textual and cultural topics. Plus it has video-phone scan blocks connecting to videos online, some of which are more devotional in content by the way.
[tag]redhotmagma[/tag], I’m going through Brian McLaren’s “We Make The Road By Walking” with my kids (9 and 5). My eldest is also rather bright 
and it seems to work for him, but it’s organised weekly rather than daily. There is a website that provides summaries and video clips to go with it which is what I’m using because McLaren can be very wordy and of course he isn’t writing for children, not even smart ones.
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They’re organised to match the liturgical year so it’s probably best to start with the current one otherwise you end up doing Christmas readings at Easter! 