Sunday, January 22, 2017

Good Good Father by Chris Tomlin and Pat Barrett






Some songs really click with their audience and in 2016, Chris Tomlin's "Good, Good Father" did just that reaching number 1 on the charts. However, the song spends the majority of the song affirming God's role as a good father rather than explaining the aspects that make this true.

In the book Good, Good Father Tomlin and Barrett  use dreamy illustrations, strong rhyming sentence structure, and a wonderfully age appropriate story to help teach our little ones what aspects truly make God a good father.

Overall, I was really pleased with the construction of the book. It's durable  board book pages are perfect for its intended audience to hold, turn, and interact with. The story itself is easy to  read with a strong rhyming structure that helps make children's stories so much easier to read (be it the first, third, or tenth time in a row). The narrative also was intentional in its drawing on a wide variety of examples to help children start to see just how vast the nature of this good father is.

My only concern is that some younger children may be  confused as to why their own fathers don't live up to the image formed by the book as it not explicitly stated that the book is talking about God and that no human father can be all these things all the time. My own son was a bit confused due to his age and comprehension.


4 out of 5 stars

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