VeggieTales Review

Or at least, that would be the case should these cute cartoon characters actually have hands.  The creators of Veggie Tales definitely have children in mind as they crafted the talking and singing vegetables.  Perhaps they figured that vegetables were not for eating and therefore should be for singing? 

The lessons taught in these animations are valuable and practical.  It’s fun to watch as Bible stories come to life in the form of produce and explain truths at a child’s level.  Children, at all ages, are allowed to watch so much television and the movie list is endless.  However, Veggie Tales at least provides children with the opportunity of being entertained at the same time they are being instructed in Biblical principles.

The question then is; what will these characters learn next?

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Lucy makes a very poignant statement in Prince Caspian.  The children and the dwarf have gone to find the Prince, and they’ve been following Peter’s direction.  Only Peter still hasn’t gotten it through his head that he’s been gone 1400 years.

They come to a ravine where there’s a stream running many feet below, and they decide that they must go around somewhere down the river.  Then Lucy sees Aslan, and he’s seeming to signal that she should follow him.

There are four different reactions to her statement:

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I know, Prince Caspian is from the Chronicles of Narnia, but I just saw it this past Saturday with my family, and I can’t get over the number of lessons that I saw that could be learned from this story, so I’d like to spend some time this week telling you them, before getting back on the VeggieTales track.

I’m going to try to go about this from memory and work my way chronologically, but we’ll see how it goes. (If you don’t want the movie spoiled, you may not want to read past this part.)

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I’m having trouble writing posts from inside the WordPress interface… Let’s see if this works.

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