At Your Baptism

At Your Baptism Carrie Steenwyk and John D. Witvliet, illus. Linda Saport Eerdmans, 2011 A couple of months ago, I was sitting amidst the variously strewn odds and ends of my life, trying to organize it into boxes, and chatting with the children’s pastor from our church. She asked if we had come across any [...]

Who Is Coming to Our House?

Who Is Coming to Our House? Joseph Slate & Ashley Wolff Putnam, 2001 (board book edition) It’s true: the first Sunday of Advent is less than three weeks away!  We’re starting to review Christmas books now not to stress you out but to give you plenty of time to get your hands on some great [...]

You Are Special

You Are Special Max Lucado & Sergio Martinez Crossway, 2007A confession: when Haley first gave my daughter the board book edition of You Are Special, I was suspicious. It took me awhile to sit down and actually read it. After all, it’s by Max Lucado, and I harbor in my heart and uncharitable and unwarranted suspicion [...]

Baby’s Hug-a-Bible

Baby’s Hug-a-Bible Sally Lloyd-Jones & Claudine Gevry Harper Festival, 2010 One of my major frustrations with Christian books for kids is sub-genre of board books.  To be sure, there are many to choose from, but most of them fall into at least of one three traps: poorly illustrated, too much text, or ceasing to be [...]