God's Dream

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With warmth and humor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu distills his philosophy of unity and forgiveness into a picture book for the very young.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has a vision of God's dream, which he shares here with the youngest of listeners. It involves people who reach out and hold each other's hands, but sometimes get angry and hurt each other — and say they're sorry and forgive. It's a wish that everyone will see they are brothers and sisters, no matter their way of speaking to God, no matter the size of their nose or the shade of their skin. Aided by vibrant artwork evoking such images as a rainbow and a sharing circle, Tutu offers the essence of his ubuntu philosophy, a wisdom so clear and crystalline that even show more the smallest child can understand. show less

Lovely illustrations lead the way through this special book. Beginning with the question what do we personally dream about in our loveliest of dreams, then asking what we believe what God dreams for us.

The answer in the book is the God dreams about people caring, that we reach out and hold one another's hands and laugh with one another's hearts.

There is no forcefulness in God's dream. Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams believe each of us carries a piece of God's heart within us, and hen we love one another the pieces of God's hear are made whole. Our difference in color, height, and all the other differences there are should bring us together rather than tearing us apart.

This is a beautiful children's book about what God dreams. God dreams for us to love, care, share, hold, play, laugh, and forgive. God wants us to see that we are brothers and sister Christ no matter what are differences are inside and out. This is a great children's book to share with children about God. We make God happy when we treat one another with love and respect. This is an important message to share with children!

God's dream involves people who reach out and hold each other's hands, but sometimes get angry and hurt each other — and say they're sorry and forgive. It's a wish that everyone will see they are brothers and sisters, no matter their way of speaking to God, no matter the size of their nose or the shade of their skin. Aided by vibrant artwork evoking such images as a rainbow and a sharing circle, Tutu offers the essence of his Ubuntu philosophy, a wisdom so clear and crystalline that even the smallest child can understand. This is a wonderful read-aloud book for helping children connect with the internal holy, Godly space.

This book is in letter form, asking the child what they dream of and telling the child what God's dream for us is. Written in the context of bringing equality, respect for diversity, and religious tolerance through loving one another. This is an example of realistic fiction because it brings up problems that readers could face in real life, such as injustice and intolerance, and shows what the answer is, and the characters could be real. Lovely illustrations and lovely message, although I don't know how well accepted it would be in a public school, and it's got a brilliant truth to it. I would read it to kids to bring up discussion about tolerance and respect of diversity.

Simple, yet profound, prose to illustrate a message of peace and love to young children. Illustrations are gorgeous, realistically portraying children all over the world feeling all kinds of emotions. A wonderful book to help children understand and identify emotions with an overarching message of peace and acceptance of diversity, while recognizing that we are all God's children.

I liked the book, “God's Dream.” The main idea of this story is to tell children how God views them and how God desires children to be kind and forgiving. The poetic writing in this book makes readers feel loved and best of all, wanting to share love with others. For example, “Dear Child of God, do you know how to make God's dream come true? It is really quite easy. As easy as sharing, loving, caring. As easy as holding, playing, laughing. As easy as knowing we are family because we are all God's children.” What is incredibly great about this book is the diversity of the characters. I especially appreciate the illustrations because all of the characters in the book are from a different culture. There is an Asian girl, a Hispanic show more boy, an African-American girl, a Hindu girl, about every culture I see in this world. For once, I did not see a book full of American Caucasians with only a handful of different cultured characters. Some characters in the book also had traditional clothing on, and the illustrator also showed different religions. For sure, I loved the illustrations and characters in this book. show less