The Lord's Prayer

This book's text is The Lord's Prayer, no more, no less. But the illustrations by Tim Ladwig offer much more, a story behind the words, as told through the eyes of a little girl.She watches carefully as her earthly father exemplifies our heavenly Father. Together they work hard to fix an elderly lady's fence and maintain her yard. During the process, the young girl finds a gold treasure, something like a coin. Later when the woman tries to pay, the father forgives her debts and refuses to accept the money. Seeing this, the young girl decides to resist temptation and confesses to finding the coin. The elderly woman rewards the girl with the coin and a necklace from which to hang it. Readers then see that it's actually a circle pendant engraved with The Lord's Prayer.What I Like: The illustrations are amazing! Both vivid and thoroughly detailed, they tell a story all their own. I also appreciate the urban setting. Most picture books are set in the suburbs or country. This definitely fills a void for kids growing up in a city.What I Dislike: The pictures often seem unrelated to the text. This book took a LOT of explanation from me and even then I don't think my children understood the correlation. Also, the book relys heavily on the example of an earthly father to understand our heavenly Father. For broken families, this may raise more questions than it answers. Finally, this book seemed racially exclusive. Even though our family is interracial, I felt like an outsider. I would have liked a bit more diversity, even if only in background characters.Overall Rating: GoodAge Appeal: The publisher says "all ages", but I recommend 5 and above.Tanya -- Christian Children's Book Review

The artwork is beautiful. The idea of the story really takes the idea of the Lords' prayer and makes it into something that is comprehendible. It is currently one of my 2 year old's favorite books.As an adult, I want there to be a bit more direct relationship to the lord's prayer. I don't know what that really means. But often I read it as a wordless book and talk about what is going on with the pictures and then read the Lord's prayer at the end. That works fine for our purposes at 2 years old. And it gives me an excuse to work on my daughter hearing the Lord's Prayer, which was the original purpose of my buying it.

This is a beautiful book. The illustrations are lovely, but also meaningfully relate to the words.

Shalom, pretty colors I desired more. I was searching for something with lots of prayers.

Perfect addition to our library. Gorgeous illustrations; touching story. My five year old loves it!

I loved this book. Gentle and effective way to introduce the Lord's Prayer to a child.

I found it to be much easier for my 7 yr old granddaughter to learn from reading this book than the bible. The wording is somewhat similar but much easier for her to understand the full meaning of the text itself. She loves it too!

Love the illustrations, and visual interpretation of the Lords Prayer by the Artist. It puts a visual to a religious prayer making it easy for young readers to interpret! I use it and the Twenty Third Psalm book by the same Artist/author for Children s church the children start off reading from it until they can recite it by memory as all Good Books should be!

I was blown away by the beautiful pictures in this book. The narrative was unusually explained and deeply satisfying I highly recommend this volume.

Amazing

My son loves this book and the beautiful imagery in the illustrations.

beautiful illustrations that tell a story of a father and daughter, reminding us of who our Father truly is :)