Bedtime Prayers for Little Ones [Board book] Max and Denalyn Lucado. 2023. 20 pages. [Source: Library]
First sentence: Blessed Jesus, Holy One,
Thank you for the setting sun.
Blessed Jesus, full of love,
Look on me from high above.
Blessed Jesus, full of light,
Show me, Lord, what is right.
Bedtime Prayers for Little Ones is a board book written in rhyme. Are all the poems prayers? Maybe. If you're generous. There were a handful of poems that felt more like poem-poems than prayers. And it's fair to say that prayers do not have to rhyme under any circumstances. (Not that there's anything wrong with rhyming prayers.)
I thought the most valuable part of this one was the preface/introduction. I do think parents can model prayers AND praying. When little ones see you stopping to pray--or praying on the go--they may just follow in your footsteps. The book wants you to believe that you need these specific prayers--rhymes--to help teach children how to pray. You don't. Again, there is nothing wrong with the book. But you don't need the book to model prayer or teach prayer. And if you are using these prayers to encourage children to memorize specific prayers, there are a few I'd skip because as I mentioned before, they aren't exactly, prayers.
I liked this one okay.
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