God's Very Good Idea: A True Story of God's Delightfully Different Family (Tales That Tell The Truth Series)

I love that the illustrator included people of so many ages, appearances, and abilities! My niece and I have fun pointing out which ones look like the members of our mixed race family.

The text of the story really covers so much ground: from God creating man in His image, to the fall of mankind and our need for forgiveness and a rescuer, to Jesus' coming, death, and resurrection, and the church waiting for His return. I really appreciate that the last page of the book is a message about where these doctrines can be found in the Bible.

This book is another one in the tales that tell the truth series (If you haven't read any of this series, I highly recommend you do, they are all so good!), and it took me a couple of reads before I really started loving it, but now its one of my daughter and my favorites! It looks at God's very good idea to make people, all sorts of different people, but then people ruined it, sin came into the world and everything went wrong. There are some amazing illustrations with this section, kind of a spot the difference, with one page showing people interacting together as God wanted them to, and the next page showing how broken peoples relationships are because of sin. My daughter loves to point things out in the pictures. The book then shows Jesus death and resurrection and then talks about the church and how we can be caring and getting along with each other now, even if we are different, (Skin colour, hair types, different hobbies, special needs, old, young, etc. ) we can all celebrate God and the people he made, together as a church family. This is a really generously sized hardcover, beautifully produced. A great book for children 3 and up.