A read-aloud rhyming tale features vibrant, evocative illustrations and messages about how every child is unique and individually loved by God. By the author of Churched. - (Baker & Taylor)Explains how God makes every person unique with individual qualities that are needed in the world. - (Baker & Taylor)
YOU, you… God thinks about you.
God was thinking of you long before your debut.
From early on, children are looking to discover their place in the world and longing to understand how their personalities, traits, and talents fit in. The assurance that they are deeply loved and a unique creation in our big universe is certain to help them spread their wings and fly.
Through playful, charming rhyme and vivid, fantastical illustrations, When God Made You inspires young readers to learn about their own special gifts and how they fit into God’s divine plan as they grow, explore, and begin to create for themselves.
‘Cause when God made YOU, somehow God knew
That the world needed someone exactly like you! - (Random House, Inc.)
Matthew Paul Turner is a photographer, speaker, and author of numerous books, including the bestselling When God Made You and When I Pray for You.
David Catrow is an editorial cartoonist whose vibrant illustrations have appeared in more than seventy children’s books, including several New York Times bestsellers, such as I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! and I Like Myself!. He makes his home in Ohio with his wife, Deborah. - (Random House, Inc.)
Horn Book Guide Reviews
A lively and caring little girl helps others and brings beauty to her world. Rhyming text that can be a mouthful ("'Cause God loves you creating, your true self displaying / when light on the inside through art is portraying") celebrates the wonder of being a unique, dreaming child of God. Catrow's quirky and vibrant illustrations fill the pages with contagious energy. Copyright 2017 Horn Book Guide Reviews.
Kirkus Reviews
Turner and Catrow celebrate the divine in each person."From the very beginning, amid history and time, / you, little one, never left God's mind." From facial expressions to the sound of one's voice, God has it all planned out, according to Turner's rhyming couplets. Each of us is unique and needed in the world for our God-given gifts; we are reflections of God and God's hopes for us: that we will be kind, givers and dreamers even during hardships; that we will love one another, etc. Unfortunately, young children may have trouble getting these messages from Turner's text. Words and word order are often chosen to suit the rhyme and rhythm rather than for understanding, and there is some advanced vocabulary: " 'Cause God loves you creating, your true self displaying, / when light on the inside through art is portraying. / When you make-believe, the stories conceived, / the heroics, the magic, those tricks up your sleeve." Catrow's illustrations are delightful in their bright col ors and expressive, brown-skinned protagonist. They take a flight of fancy when the text turns to gifts, however, depicting an extended sequence in which the young girl uses her artistic talents to uplift, the result being an overemphasis on the value of the visual arts over all other talents. Still, books that connect individuality, being beloved of God, and using one's God-given talents are few and far between, and with some adult support, this can help fill that gap. (Picture book. 3-7) Copyright Kirkus 2017 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
