By Trillia J. Newbell
A bright, single-story picture book about God's idea of a family made of all kinds of different people, every color and shape and size, loving each other.
This is one warm picture-book story from start to finish, not a collection to dip into over years. It opens on God's 'very good idea' and carries that refrain across the sweep of the whole Bible in miniature: a good beginning where God makes people to know him, the moment people spoil it, and Jesus arriving to set things right. Catalina Echeverri's pages brim with children of every color and background, so a child spots faces that look like theirs and plenty that don't.
This is the pick when you want a single, joyful sit-down story instead of a bible to dip into over years. Its whole heart is diversity and belonging: it says, in child-sized words, that God made every kind of person on purpose and wants them together. For a Christian family that wants their child's first faith library to plainly celebrate people of every color and background, this puts that front and center. It's short, glowing, and easy to love in one reading.