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Happy Friday!! Typically today I have a Friday Favorites post for you, but today I am diverting and sharing the children’s books I bought for Harrison at the women’s conference I went to in June. Like I said in my post on the books I bought for myself, the conference book store is the best because it has books that are at a big discount–like I bought a book for myself that was normally $12, but I bought it for myself for $4! Can’t beat that!!

These books are great to buy for your own kids or even gift them to family members! I really believe in having a diverse library in our home. Harrison not only has classic children’s books in his “library,” but he also has children’s book that have a Christian theme in them because again, our children are so impressionable and books teach them about the world and how they should view it–and I am really strategic about what we read.

We read The Jesus Storybook Bible each night with Harrison, but I was ready to look for something different. This Bible is excellent! It’s told in 10 different parts and acts as 1 big story (which is what the Bible is). It’s also on sale on Amazon!

Okay, I am VERY excited to share this book! This book was sold out when we went to the conference in 2018, and because we hadn’t started the adoption process yet, I forgot all about it. I was reminded about it when I saw it in the bookstore last month and couldn’t buy it fast enough. Then I read it when I was waiting for one of my breakout sessions to begin and teared up the whole book. It’s beautifully written and illustrated and I believe ALL families should own this book.

This book does a great job teaching children to see value in all people–people with disabilities and without. Harrison isn’t around people with disabilities much, if any, so I want to expose him to right thinking now.

Hunter Beless, host of the Journeywomen podcast, wrote this book about loving Scripture. It’s a little old for Harrison right now, but something that he will be old enough to understand within a few years. It teaches children to delight in Scripture as a way to worship God.

Full disclosure: This book does not even apply to us at all in our life right now. The only reason why I bought this book is because the author wrote what is probably Harrison’s all time favorite book, Arlo and the Great Big Coverup. BUT I do know that there are kids who struggle with being addicted to screens, and this book does a great job of showing what kids are missing when they stay glued to a screen.

We are currently struggling with getting Harrison to understand that prayer is simply talking to God. Whenever I tell him he can start off our prayer, he tells us he doesn’t know what to say. I hope by reading this book that he can fully realize prayer is simply talking to God and that it doesn’t take special words to talk to Him.

I only bought this book because Janie told me I had to! it’s based off of a lullaby by JJ Heller and is a really sweet book!!

Trillia Newbell, who wrote this book, is the same author who wrote God’s Very Good Idea that I linked earlier. I didn’t know about this book before I bought it, but I only bought it because I like the author. This book teaches kids to love others like Jesus.

I am so glad I bought this book because it’s great!!! It does an excellent job of explaining God’s grace to kids in language they can understand. (And it might even explain it to adults who still have a hard time understanding the concept of grace 🙂 )

I hope this post was helpful in seeing books you could add to your own personal library. See you back here next week!!