Love Connects Us All Book Review {& Giveaway!}

Are you looking for a children’s book celebrating how families are unique and how God’s love connects them all? If so, then consider this thorough review of Love Connects Us All. Plus, the author and publisher have kindly sent an autographed copy to give away to one of you. Yay!

The Author

If you caught last week’s blog post, “God’s Love Connects Us All,” you were blessed to read the words of the author of Love Connects Us All, Michelle Medlock Adams.

Michelle is a New York Times best-selling ghostwriter and an award-winning author of more than 100 books, including Our God is Bigger Than That.

I first met Adams at the Blue Ridge Christian Writers Conference several years ago. She is one of my favorite workshop presenters and I can understand why she’s a highly sought after speaker. Her love for Christ and her desire to help others, especially children, are sincere.

The Illustrator

At first, I thought Sandra Eide’s work was new to me, but then I discovered she did the artwork for Laura Sassi’s My Tender Heart Bible, so I have seen her excellent work before! She’s highly talented with her skills using watercolors, textures, and digital mediums. The illustrations in Love Connects Us All are soft and colorful. Eide does an exceptionally beautiful job creating many variations of skin colors, which makes her a perfect fit for illustrating this book.

The Content of Love Connects Us All

Wren & Bear Books, an imprint of End Game Press, published this 32 page which emphasizes the meaning of a family and the importance of love.

The book opens with a family consisting of a dad, an expectant mom, a little girl, a little boy, and a dog. The first spread sets the stage for the whole book,

“So . . . just what is a family?

The people you adore?

Is it a mom and dad and kids?

Or is it something more?”

The delightful rhyming text carries readers on a journey discovering families of all kinds including families with a single parent and a parent who lives elsewhere (this could be viewed as a military parent). It covers families with and without siblings and those with grandparents present.  The illustrations include people of all shapes and shades of color. Readers will see a child in a wheelchair and hear about foster care and adoption.

Also Included

Near the end of Love Connects Us All, the author included a prayer for the readers to thank God for their unique families and for being a part of God’s family.

Also included on the inside of the back cover, is a place for children to place a photo or hand-drawn picture of their family. It has a clear plastic cover. Children can change out their pictures as their families grow.

Recommendation

I highly recommend this book. Even though there are no scriptures included, there is nothing, that I can see, in the content or the illustrations that are contrary to the Word of God.

Love Connects Us All would be a perfect gift celebrating a child’s adoption. It also would make a thoughtful gift to a child becoming part of a blended family or whose family dynamics are changing due to deployment, divorce, or death.

Children will find this beautifully written and illustrated book about family love affirming and uplifting.

The Giveaway

A big thank you to the author and Wren & Bear Books for donating an authographed, giveaway copy of this book! We will randomly select a name from this blog’s email subscriber list as the winner of an autographed copy of Love Connects Us All on September 28, 2023. I’ll announce it here and on my Facebook Page. Plus, I’ll send a personal email to the winner asking where they’d like me to mail the book. As always there are no charges whatsoever to the winner.

While we wait for that drawing, would you please share with us something you love about your family? Or, tell us how your family came togethter?

I’ll start. My sweet hubby and I have four children. Three are biological, but one of those was called to heaven before birth. God sent our fourth child through adoption. All of our kids, and our four grandkids, are truly blessings from God.

Tell us about your family!

Congratulations to Audrey A.! I’m unsure where she lives, but I sent an email to let her know her name was drawn from this blog’s subscriber list as the winner of this adorable book. Woohoo! If I don’t hear from her in a few days, I’ll draw another name.

I received a FREE copy of this product in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC Regulations.

A freelance writer, Sally Matheny’s writing is published in worldwide, national, regional, online and print publications including Appleseeds, Clubhouse Jr., Homeschooling Today, and The Old Schoolhouse.

As a writer, blogger, and speaker, Sally encourages parents to live victorious and to courageously tell the next generation wondrous things. Connect with her on several social media sites, but her favorite hangouts are at SallyMatheny.com and Pinterest.