Loved: The Lord's Prayer

Beautiful padded board book on a paraphrase of the Lord's prayer from the Jesus storybook Bible. The pictures are beautiful, and I much prefer them to the original. My toddler loves reading the book, and looking at the pictures and talking about them. \\nMy criticism is that it starts with """"Hello Daddy"""" - while this is accurate, I feel perhaps a bit confusing for concrete thinking aged children, and maybe """"Hello Daddy God"""" would have been more understandable for small children.

This book is beautifully printed, the pages are thick and strong, the size is generous and easy for small children to look through. I find the illustrations whimsical and cute, and some of the imagery is helpful in relation to the words ('Forgive us for doing wrong, for hurting you' as two children fight over a bucket, 'forgive us just as we forgive other people when they hurt us' as they hug and then walk home sharing the bucket. ). I think its a pity that the book starts with """"Hello Daddy!"""". I get that the author is wanting to express the closeness of our relationship to God, but as it only mentions God once in one of the last pages, I think it could have been much clearer using 'Father God' or something similar instead. Otherwise children could read it as a story about their dad, and how great he is (There are many books about dads that do celebrated them by exaggerating their abilities like that). I can see how this book could be a very nice prayer time support, bedtime perhaps, but I find it a little lacking in depth to reread too many times. I would suggest it is for children aged 4 and under.