Arts Publications

So That's What God Is Like!

Reviewer's Bookwatch, Dec, 2004 by Susan Bethany

LeAnne Hardy & Janet Wilson

Kregel Kidzone/Kregel Publications

PO Box 2607, Rand Rapids, MI 49501

In So That's What God Is Like! author LeAnne Hardy draws upon her ten years of experience in Africa serving as a missionary librarian to create the story of Temba, a young African boy who tends his family's goats with his big brother Sipo but is so small that he can only climb where his brother can leap. When his mother carries a heavy tin of water upon her head to irrigate the corn plants in the family garden, Temba is so small that he can only carry a little can of water upon his. Temba's family are Christians and he loves his village church and his teacher. But Temba thinks he is too small and unimportant to ask anything of God. With the help of Temba's Granny he learns that no one is so small, so little, or so unimportant that God would not want to help and protect them. Temba discovers that God is like a shepherd who is interested in the well-being of every member of the flock. Especially the little chicks, the little babies, and the little goats, and the little boys like Temba. Janet Wilson's museum quality artwork adds a very special supportive imagery to this original and heartfelt picture story for young Christian readers ages five to eight.