I put my new recommended reading up yesterday, but failed to get around to posting about them.  These two weeks I decided to recommend two children’s books we have been enjoying in our home.

1. Heaven for Kids by Randy Alcorn

This book has encouraged some really great discussion on heaven.  Both Joe and I enjoyed Alcorn’s original “Heaven” for adults.  The discussions that have come from this book with Abby and Elijah have been very valuable.  Of course, now we have to work on Elijah’s view of this life.  The other day he stopped holding my hand on the street.  When i told him he needed to be careful because cars could hurt him or even kill him, he told me, “Well, then I can just go to Heaven and be with Jesus!”

2. A Hat for Ivan by Max Lucado

All the kids have enjoyed this book about God’s individual callings on each of our lives.  The premise of the story is that God designs each of us to do something, but only He can help us to know what that is.  Others may want us to be what they have been called to be, but we can’t do what they do just to make them happy.  There are a lot of Max Lucado’s children’s stories that are really cute and this is one of them.