Review: Stories Jesus Told: The Lost Son Comes Home

I haven’t done our blog’s “wee-kids Wednesdays” for a few weeks but here’s this week’s review of Children’s books.

Tim Ladwig. Stories Jesus Told: The Lost Son Comes Home. Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, August 7th 2019. 32 pp.

5 out of 5

Purchase: Amazon

Want a story that tells Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son to kids?  This is it.  This illustrated children’s book is on one of my favorite parables that Jesus taught.  And now I get to share this with my children!

Several pages into reading this book to my girls it occurred to me that the wording from this book comes straight from the Bible in the Gospel of Luke.  I appreciate this being a picture book of Scripture!  The artwork is well done.  It was illustrated in a way that reflects what we would imagine the parable would be like and I appreciate that since that’s not taken for granted today where even Christian children book has artwork that swerve the weird and abstract.  While illustrated for kids it still portray just how low the lost son and the older brother is like.  I love the one illustration where the prodigal comes back home and the servants are changing his clothes and giving him what the father told them to give and one of them even made a face with the son’s dirty clothes!  I read this a few times and a few weeks afterwards one of my daughters asked me to read it to her again with the other girls affirming they want me to read it aloud again, which thus affirm this book is worthwhile to purchase!

NOTE: This book was provided to me free by Discovery House and Net Galley without any obligation for a positive review. All opinions offered above are mine unless otherwise stated or implied.