Ink on His Fingers (Louise A. Vernon Religious Heritage)

I am reading this to my boys, ages 7-10, and they are enjoying it. Its a great read aloud to go with our lessons on Gutenberg.

My 11 yo son rates this a 4 star book because it has action and is told from the perspective of Hans, a fictional apprentice of Gutenburg. Although we studied Gutenburg in a text, this book was much more descriptive of the characters and it helped him learn what it was like to be a kid in the renaissance time period. Now when he thinks of Gutenburg he realizes how important Gutenburg was to history by printing books the way he did. He was also impressed that this happened only 600 years ago.(My 13 yo son was less impressed with the book and found it to be too easy and somewhat boring.)

I read this with my children as a supplement to learning about the beginning of the Reformation and the Renaissance in homeschool. This book tells the story of Joanne Gutenberg and the printing of the first 100 bibles with the printing press. And it tells the story through the eyes of a young boy who becomes his apprentice. This makes it interesting and understandable for children. We enjoyed reading it together, and would like to read more of Louise Vernon's books about Christian history.

I had high expectations, but seeing some mispelled word, missing “ on character’s lines and unemotional storytelling make me feel my money is wasted. This story focused on the debt problem that Gutenberg had. And mainly talking about how his apprentice, our main character try to find a way to give money to his master. This story lack of the emotion. No awe in description of the bible. This story is flat. I felt bad, really. The ending of the story is full of hope. But 99% of the book is depressing. The concept of God’s work will always continue, no matter what is the plus side of the book. But I really am disappointed.

This is our first time using the Louise A Vernon books and we loved them. It was well written and engaging. I learned so much more about Gutenberg and the "printing race" then we were ever taught in public schools.I can't wait to read the others by this author.

This book, and many others by Vernon Louise are a wonderful means of training up my grandchildren in the ways of the Lord. Highly recommend all!!

It was a pretty good. It had a good christian message. The only question I have is what time period is this compared to Luther. The plot is ok. I gave it three stars because it wasn't really that exciting.

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