Need to start up again our Weekend Reading Review! To kick it off this year’s Reading Weekend Review this week we look at a Christian Children’s book for your family!
Tim Ladwig. Stories Jesus Told: The Story of the Two Builders. Grand Rapids, MI: Our Daily Bread Publishing, March 2nd, 2021. 32 pp.
5 out of 5
Purchase: Amazon
Want a children’s picture story book that you can read that capture Jesus’ teaching about the wise and foolish builder? Tim Ladwig has illustrated another excellent children’s book on Jesus’ parables for the ages of four through seven. I was delighted to see Ladwig has another volume out as part of his “Stories Jesus Told” series. Previously I have enjoyed three of the books he illustrated: The Lost Son Comes Home, Who Is My Neighbor? and Looking for the Lost Sheep. So when I saw he has a new book out titled The Story of the Two Builders I realized I need to read this to my kids! What’s amazing is my kids can identify his illustration style as the same as the previous books from him we read before!
The words for the book comes straight from the Bible in the Gospel of Luke. Specifically the book’s wordings comes from Luke 6:46-49. I like that as it is God’s Word that I’m reading to my children.
Ladwig’s illustration is great and realistic and I have to say that since today’s some children’s book’s illustration is abstract or even bizzare; I don’t know why they do that as it leaves little ones confused. Such is the sign of our times I suppose. The quality of the artwork done for the cover is representative of the quality of the artwork within the book’s pages for those that is wondering what it’s like.
Kids who are elementary school age and younger will enjoy the book and parents will appreciate it being reading from God’s Word. I recommend this book!
NOTE: This book was provided to me free by Our Daily Bread Publishing and Net Galley without any obligation for a positive review. All opinions offered above are mine unless otherwise stated or implied.
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Bible stories with graphics are helpful to ignite the interest in the Gospel of children and even teens. Thank you for this review, Jim! Blessings to you and your family!
Your welcome and thank you for reading this! Thanks for the blessing to my family as well! If you can pray for my eyes won’t give me trouble as I do sermon prep tonight…
Praying pastor, praying for the twitch to be gone.
I definitely agree with you; the illustrations are wonderful. Thanks for this review SlimJim ☺️
Thanks for the review! Looks like a good book for children. Yes, I also dislike it when they use “modern art” as illustrations for children’s books.
Like you I dislike the work of art that doesn’t seem real and seem strange…why do that for kids? Thanks for your prayers for my eyes, praying for your shift today!
Thanks, brother!
Strange that they would do that for children’s book. Can’t imagine they sell much books like that. Agenda?
Praying for your eyes. 🙏🏻
Thanks for the wonderful suggestion and for the insight of the review.
Blessings.
Thank you.
You’re welcome! How is your weekend so far Maw Maw?
Very good. Enjoying sunny day. 61degrees. Singing worship to the Lord.:)
awesome. the cover alone caught my interest. God bless you
Thanks for the recommendation, Jim!
Thank you for reading this review! Are you fully recovered from your travels? I ask since often when I come back from a trip I am tired for awhile =)
Lol. Fully recovered. In Florida now. Gotta love those antibodies. 😉
Nice! Another good book of Tim’s. I remember when you wrote a review on his other book about the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Looks like a good book to get my nephews!
Love how it quotes Scripture
How come no one teaches anything from the teachings of Christ that had been buried for roughly 1,700 years?