Welcome to the God Made Me Book Review

I received the following books from New Growth Press in exchange for an honest review. The thoughts and opinions are my own.

God Made Me Unique, a beautifully illustrated picture book, helps parents and caregivers teach children that God creates every person in the image of God and each individual has tremendous value, regardless of his or her appearance or abilities. The story is set in a Sunday school classroom where a new girl, Brie, is introduced by her mom. Brie’s Sunday school teacher takes the time to welcome Brie and to explain to the other children why she is wearing headphones. Through getting to know Brie, the children are guided into a biblical understanding of the uniqueness of each of God’s children. Along the way they learn to ask questions and gain an understanding about their new friend. Told in a charming rhyming style, this colorful, hardcover book will help eliminate fear and misconceptions about those who have special needs and emphasizes that every person deserves to be treated with kindness and respect. The back of the book contains a special section just for parents and caregivers that will guide them in how to have biblical, loving conversations with children and gives them additional information and resources to equip them in talking about this important subject. Like God Made All of Me by Justin and Lindsey Holcomb and God Made Me AND You by Shai Linne, God Made Me Unique gives parents the tools to have important, impactful conversations with their children that will grow their understanding of God, themselves, and others.

About Joni and Friends

Joni and Friends is an organization that accelerates Christian outreach in the disability community. Founded in 1979, their mission is to communicate the gospel and equip Christ-honoring churches worldwide to evangelize and disciple people affected by disability. The organization authors numerous books including the new releases The Gospel in Hard Times and The Gospel in Hard Times for Students (study guides about suffering in which participants are guided to look to Jesus to understand who God is in the midst of their own suffering and the suffering of others), God Made Me Unique (a children’s book helping parents and caregivers teach children that God creates every person in the image of God), and a series of minibooks providing personal insight & encouragement for tough circumstances. You can learn more about Joni and Friends at www.joniandfriends.org.

My Thoughts on "God Made Me Unique"  I work at a school for special needs children and I was very excited to read this book.  It's very important to teach children of all ages and backgrounds one important aspect, that we were all created uniquely by God and created in His image. 💗 What I loved about this book is how it approaches young children to be open about their curiosity when they encounter children with disabilities, that it's okay to ask questions.  Children with disabilities are like everyone else, and that they deserve to be treated with respect and kindness.  They will be able to interact with these children and not be afraid to befriend them or play with them. I do recommend this book for parents and teachers who teach at Sunday school, home schooling, and if at all possible, even public schools.  Children with disabilities may seem different but they don't have to be treated that way.

God Made Boys and Girls helps children understand that their gender is a gift from the God who made them and loves them. The story begins as the girls and boys at Grace Christian School are discussing if boys will always be boys and girls will always be girls. Their teacher explains that God gives each of us the gift of being male or female before we are born, and that you continue to be a boy or a girl whether you like to climb trees or play house, play tag or color pictures, cause a ruckus or sit quietly. In a world where there is so much confusion about gender and identity, pastor and best-selling author Marty Machowski shares the simple, clear truth that all of us are made in God’s image as either male or female—and what God made is very good! Included in the back of the book is a special section just for parents and caregivers that gives biblical guidance and help as they have this important conversation with their children.

About the author

Marty Machowski is a Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, where he has served on the pastoral staff for thirty years. Machowski leads Promise Kingdom, the gospel-centered children’s ministry of Covenant Fellowship. He is the author of numerous resources for churches and families, including The Gospel Story for Kids series, The Ology, and Parenting First Aid. His latest release is the children’s picture book, Don’t Blame the Mud. Machowski and his wife, Lois, reside in West Chester, Pennsylvania. They have six children and two grandchildren. He is also the Executive Editor for Children’s Resources at New Growth Press. Learn more at www.martymachowski.com. He can also be found on Twitter (@MartyMachowski). My Thoughts on "God Made Boys and Girls"  This book couldn't have come at a better time.  We are living in a age where people are confused about gender.  It's rather shocking that this has happened at all, but now that our young children are being indoctrinated into believing there are more than two genders, this book will help parents and teachers to confront this detrimental issue and equip them with the knowledge that God created male and female.  It will help them from becoming confused about what society is pushing on them to embrace. Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." This book was wonderfully well written and easy for young children to understand.  The setting is as at a school, and it's about how a little girl, Maya, who ran faster than the boys in her classroom, and one of the boys had remarked about that and that if she kept it up, she would become a boy, which sparked the gender discussion.  It's a great opening to start with and it explains to children how girls differ from boys.  It explains about the double XX gender code that makes females and the XY gender code that makes males. And that this gender code is deeply embedded in every cell of our bodies, which makes each of us all unique.   The book also shares the story of salvation and how Jesus died for every one of us, and that God loves us all, and that we should be kind to one another. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE THESE BOOKS JUST CLICK ON THE TITLES