The Good That I Should

Reviewer's Bookwatch, May, 2005 by Susan Bethany

The Good That I Should

Gwyn Borcherding & Vincent Nguyen

Concordia Publishing House

3558 South Jefferson Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63118-3968

0758603924 $9.99 1-800-325-3040 www.cph.org

A picture book adaptation drawn from Romans 7:19, The Good That I Should by Gwyn Borcherding is the story of a little boy who tries very hard to do the right thing but sometimes fails. The delightful rhyming text is nicely enhanced with the artwork of Vincent Nguyen. Young readers will learn that regardless of how often we fail to do the right thing, we can be forgiven because Jesus took the punishment for all of our sins. So it is always possible to start again, to do the right thing again, to not give into temptation or misbehave or neglect responsibilities. The Good That I Should is a welcome addition to family, Sunday School, and community library picturebook collections for Christian young readers.