New Lucado Book Perfect for Kids ... and Their Parents!
-December 30, 2009-Comments (0)
We see a lot of products for possible review in ParentLife. Rarely do we see a note so personal and heartfelt directed toward our readers. We wanted to share this note with you from Max Lucado about his new book, The Tallest of Smalls.Parents today need all the help they can get. Ponder these statistics for just a moment.
There are 8,769 hours in a year and within those thousands of hours, children spend 29% of them sleeping, only 1% of them attending church, 16% of them at school, and the majority of their time, with an overwhelming majority of 54%, at home.
Parents are the number one influence on their children’s lives, but with strong outside forces and conflicting messages infiltrating the home, the best teachers in a child’s life are facing tremendous challenges. I have made it my mission not only to inspire and encourage adults, but also to give children and their parents the opportunity to learn together about God’s tremendous love for them through something so simple as a children’s picture book.
In The Tallest of Smalls, I wanted to convey a precious message to children about how divinely special and unique they are. It takes a lot of courage, even for us grown-ups, to stand up for what we believe in and to be ourselves in a world that tells us fitting in is the most important. Courage is a learned skill best adopted during childhood. With The Tallest of Smalls, I wanted to give parents a story that helped build their child’s confidence in him or herself through the life-changing love and unconditional acceptance of our Heavenly Father.
In a society obsessed with image and status, we all need a reminder that fame and fortune doesn’t make the person. We all need a reminder that we are always loved and cherished by God. We all need a reminder that what our Heavenly Father thinks of us trumps what the world might say. It is my prayer that within the pages of a simple rhyming children’s book, adults and children alike can be reminded of these profound truths and apply them to their hearts and lives forever.
Blessings,
Max Lucado
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