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Resource: Book (Bk2073) Maybe God Is Like That Too     
Author: Jennifer Grant
Publisher: SPARKHOUSE FAMILY, 2017
Length: 32 pages
Heading: CH9 — Children's Literature
Subjects: Christian life / Fiction; City and town life / Fiction; God (Christianity) / Fiction
Location: PZ7.1.G725 May 2017
# Copies: 1
ISBN/ISSN: 9781506421896
Description: The nine biblical Fruit of the Spirit—love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self control—form the foundation of this story about a boy’s attempts to “see” God in the city where he lives with his grandmother. (Between the central child grandmother relationship urban setting and theme of observing one’s surroundings while contemplating big existential questions the book seems to position itself as a religious counterpart to Matt de la Peña’s Last Stop on Market Street.) In her first book for children Grant (Wholehearted Living) follows her young narrator a boy with big eyes and swoopy brown hair through a single day where events like joyfully playing on a swing set quietly reading in a classroom and noticing a neighbor’s gift of fresh baked bread all shape the boy’s sense of God’s presence. “That’s what kindness looks like to me” he thinks as he watches a doorman help a man in a wheelchair
enter a building. “Maybe God is like that too.” Schipper’s cheerful screenprintlike artwork capably evokes the energy of a moderately gritty moderately diverse cityscape. Ages 4–8. (Feb.)" Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."
Age Groups: Preschool; Elementary


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