Matthew Paul Turner

Won Barnes & Noble's 2023 Book of the Year award
Ages 1-6

This book was so sweet. It was a children's poem-style nonfiction book about God's love and intentionality in creating them.
While I want to teach at a public middle school, this book probably won't fit my specific level, but I would definitely use this if I were a K-1st grade teacher at a private school for a read-aloud talking about how God loves us, our gifts and talents, and beauty. I would also have this book in my own home for my kids to read, and I would read it with them.

Through charming rhyme and fantastical illustrations this book inspires youngsters to learn about their own special gifts and how to fit into God's plan as they grow, explore begin to create themselves

Through lyrical verse and wild illustrations, the author encourages little ones to revel in creation's light...and all that light is the very same light that God put inside you.