When God Made You

by Matthew Paul Turner, David Catrow (Illustrator)

Overview

YOU, you… God thinks about you.
God was thinking of you long before your debut.

From early on, children are looking to discover their place in the world and longing to understand how their personalities, traits, and talents fit in. The assurance that they are deeply loved and a unique creation in our big universe is certain to help them spread their wings and fly. 
 
Through playful, charming rhyme and vivid, fantastical illustrations, When God Made You inspires young readers to learn about their own special gifts and how they fit into God’s divine plan as they grow, explore, and begin to create for themselves. 
 
‘Cause when God made YOU, somehow God knew
That the world needed someone exactly like you!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781601429193
Publisher:	Random House Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/28/2017
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	177,560
File size:	73 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Matthew Paul Turner is a photographer, speaker, and author of numerous books, including the bestselling When God Made You and When I Pray for You.

David Catrow is an editorial cartoonist whose vibrant illustrations have appeared in more than seventy children’s books, including several New York Times bestsellers, such as I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! and I Like Myself!. He makes his home in Ohio with his wife, Deborah.

Read an Excerpt

You, you, when God made YOU, God made you all shiny and new.

An incredible you, a you all your own, a you unlike anyone else ever known.

An exclusive design, one God refined, you’re a perfectly crafted one of a kind.

’Cause when God made you, somehow God knew that the world needed someone exactly like you.

Editorial Reviews

ECPA bestseller

'When God Made You' is one of the most beautiful, most compelling, and most life-affirming children's books I've ever read—it's 'Oh, the Places You'll Go' meets the Divine. This book is a gift for kids of all ages!" –Amy Grant, six time Grammy Award-winning artist

"One of the most beautiful children's books I've ever read and the walls of our house are lined with books." –Ann Voskamp, author of the New York Times Bestsellers, "The Greatest Gift" & "One Thousand Gifts"

From the Publisher

2017-02-04
Turner and Catrow celebrate the divine in each person."From the very beginning, amid history and time, / you, little one, never left God's mind." From facial expressions to the sound of one's voice, God has it all planned out, according to Turner's rhyming couplets. Each of us is unique and needed in the world for our God-given gifts; we are reflections of God and God's hopes for us: that we will be kind, givers and dreamers even during hardships; that we will love one another, etc. Unfortunately, young children may have trouble getting these messages from Turner's text. Words and word order are often chosen to suit the rhyme and rhythm rather than for understanding, and there is some advanced vocabulary: " 'Cause God loves you creating, your true self displaying, / when light on the inside through art is portraying. / When you make-believe, the stories conceived, / the heroics, the magic, those tricks up your sleeve." Catrow's illustrations are delightful in their bright colors and expressive, brown-skinned protagonist. They take a flight of fancy when the text turns to gifts, however, depicting an extended sequence in which the young girl uses her artistic talents to uplift, the result being an overemphasis on the value of the visual arts over all other talents. Still, books that connect individuality, being beloved of God, and using one's God-given talents are few and far between, and with some adult support, this can help fill that gap. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews