Board book based on the Lord's prayer showing even the youngest children how to talk to God.
From Sally Lloyd-Jones, author of the blockbuster The Jesus Storybook Bible (over two million copies sold!), comes Loved—a padded board book based on the Lords Prayer. It shows even the youngest readers how to talk to God.
Sally Lloyd-Jones' heartfelt text is a comfort to children and reminds them that God will always love them with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love.
| Age range: | 3+ |
|---|---|
| Contributors | Sally Lloyd-Jones |
| ISBN | 9780310757610 |
| Format | Hardback |
| First published | October 2018 |
| Dimensions | 216mm x 210mm x 26mm |
| Weight | 0.48 kg |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 20 |
| Publisher | Zondervan |
Regrettably I cannot recommend this book. It is an attempt to put the Lord’s Prayer into child friendly language but ends up being misleading. Let us take the first three sections.
The book opens with ‘Hello Daddy!’. The child will immediately think of his or her own daddy. There is nothing to indicate that we are speaking to our heavenly Father. The term ‘Daddy’ is itself not the best. It rightly indicates a loving closeness but misses out on the element of loving respect which would have been present originally.
For ‘hallowed be your name’ we have ‘We want to know you. And be close to you. Please show us how.’ The prayer that God’s name should be hallowed is a request that he should be reverenced as holy, by ourselves and by others. This paraphrase tells us nothing about the character of God.
For ‘Your kingdom come’ we have ‘Make everything in the world right again. And in our hearts too.’ To say ‘And in our hearts too’ is not a proper sentence. More importantly, the word ‘kingdom’ implies a king. That is missing from the paraphrase. The only way in which everything in the world can be made right is for the Lord to be acknowledged as its rightful king. What he will do must arise out of who he is.
The attempt to teach children the Lord’s Prayer is commendable but as the above examples show, we do better to teach it in the words that Jesus himself gave us. We can then go on to explain it in ways that children can understand.
The illustrations are delightful and the colours are pleasing.
