A Child of God teaches children that we are all created in the Image of God. I appreciated the message of the book and believe it’s a good message for all of us. It also has a discussion guide in the back of the book to help families and teachers teach children that we are all created uniquely by God’s design and includes Biblical references to back up the points in the discussion guide. Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read this book! (This review is also on GoodReads.)

The message of this book is beautiful and vital. It asks questions that child desperately need answered about God and how God sees and loves them, no matter who they are or what they look like. And it does so in a loving and simple way. I also love that at the end of the book, it includes children of all different ethnicities (and possibly even religions, considering the girls in the hijab...even though I know some Christians wear head coverings as well) and how Jesus loves them all and wants us to as well.

The Bonners did a great job of conveying the fact that diversity is a part of life, community, and best of all, family!

This engaging story is derived from the first book of Genesis.
The point of view is conveyed by the roles of the parents and children, and their back and forth questions and answers.

The dialogue is magical between the parents and children, and it is what makes this book extraordinary!

It is a must read because the topic is essential to children's friendships and to the greater community. The questions are sweet and simple, yet the warmth particularly between the adults and their child or grandchild, relays the parent's charisma.

It is that spiritual insight that propels the story forward and raises curiosity in the minds of a child reader. The fact that the overall theme is children need to treat each other as equals, like they would a family member, because after all, we are all part of God's family, is conveyed throughout the story.

Highly recommend this as a book to be read aloud, or independently by a child or adult of any age!

This was a lovely book that attempts to grapple with a weighty subject, the point of many heated debates even in the world of adults. I for one, am greatful for the message of oneness and unity that it shares. That we are all children of one God and how the drawings and imaginations of people before may have had us beleiving that there is one way that being Holy looks like, we are learning that we all have something to contribute and that in fact our strength comes from our diversity. I for one, hope that children reading this book be inspired to create a world that is as beautiful as a garden with many different flowers and plants.

This is such a cute book that helps kids realize that God loves everyone, no matter your ethnicity! I love that everyone was included.

This book is adorable!! It helps kids recognize that God loves us all, no matter what we look like and that we all have differences that are beautiful and make us unique. We are all God's children and treat each other as such. My kids and I both really loved how uplifting and diverse this book was.

A great book explaining to children how we are all made in the image of God, but that doesn't mean we all physically look the same.

An exceptional book for all children
Although this book was written by a Black mother and father to help their children, this book has the ability to reach to all children. All children will at times wonder if or where they fit in religiously. This book lovingly and gently explains how all children and people are God’s creation regardless of skin tone name or traditions. Such an important concept for children to understand about themselves and others.z I received an early copy and this is my honest review. I highly recommend this book.

Thank you NetGalley for this advanced copy. I was excited to see a girl with hijab on the cover, so I decided to give this book a try. I was disappointed in that it only focuses on the Christian beliefs. Muslims do not believe that humans were created in God's image, so this book is misleading. It does not accurately represent Muslim beliefs. I appreciate that the illustrator was trying to include diverse faiths, but this is just incorrect. I recommend either removing the Muslims portrayed or discuss what Muslims believe (like we are created from different racial backgrounds so that we may know one another).