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Before You Were Born

by Nancy White Carlstrom

Hardcover, 32 pages

Published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (2002-01-01)

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Amazon Description

Before you were born God wrote your days in a book, and when you arrived we wrapped you in white and introduced you to the dawn. What child isnt curious about those first days of life? In Before You Were Born Nancy White Carlstrom celebrates the mystery of how each child is a part of Gods plan and the wonder of how a family grows and changes when a child arrives. With vibrant colors and joyful images, illustrator Linda Saport tenderly conveys the excitement and love with which parents welcome children into their lives. This lyrical celebration of every childs life takes its inspiration from Psalm 139.

One Potato Review

There’s a lot of God to get over, or to celebrate, here. You could also make a case this book is more naturally pitched to breathless new parents than the very young children they read to, still there’s finally no discounting the enormous peacefulness between these covers - both in saturated landscapes full of hills and stars and leaping, glowing fish, and the text which lingers in “faraway shadows” and “cactus bursting into bloom.” There’s a great grandmother here too who has woven a cap for the newborn out of moonbeams and silk and a lifetime’s worth of perspective. This book is like that sometimes. For baby dreams, she says. 

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