What is the Gospel by Mandy Grace Illustrated by Tessa Janes Choice E

 

About this book:  Children often have many questions about God and the gospel and this little illustrated book is a great way to introduce the topic. Written for preschoolers, this book explains what the gospel is not just parts of it, in a way that kids can understand.

This book is available as a paperback.  It was published in 2012 by Christian focus publishers.  

Things I like about this book:

• modeling higher-level thinking as a narrative. And would be a great conversational book one on one.  
• the illustrations- Mandy Grace is a good illustrator.  
• Concepts related to the gospel mentioned, but not really defined, more implied- sin, God's kingdom, gift, Good News- "the full story of Jesus saving us from our sin....", Jesus is our King, eternal life,  God's grace and goodness, relationship with God, and being made right with God.  
• Symbols it uses and repeats- Crown-King Jesus, Three crosses, and a heart. Make it a book to build and teach from.  

Things I wonder about this book:

• will the story form of the main character trying to figure out the gospel's appeal more than a factual account?  
• is there enough information to bring the gospel to a child or is it too implied? 
• is this book really geared to preschoolers?  probably pre-K.  Maybe older.  Word choice is more advanced.  It has a lot of words on each page.  

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