When God Created My Toes
Dandi Daley
Mackall; Illustrated By: David Hohn
Review by A. E. Jaskiewicz
Children have vivid
imaginations. So, as they make their way
through the book, ‘When God Created My Toes’, their imaginations can go
into
overdrive. They can imagine what it was
like on the day God created them. They
can imagine what it was like when he created everything about them,
from the
top of their head right down to their toes.
And that is sure to keep their minds working for a while.
At the beginning of ‘When God
Created My Toes’ we see the title as the opening line.
Then, questions follow. “Did he
make them wiggle? Did he know I’d giggle?” As the story goes on, we get the same
treatment for much of the body. As we
move up the body from the toes to the head, we stop at various body
parts and
have similar questions as with the toes.
Plus, the story is told completely in rhyme, to help make it
even more
fun for kids.
The idea of the story is a
good one for kids. It is sure to fire up
their imagination and have them thinking about the day that God created
them
and the different parts of their body.
The book is written in a way that it sounds like it could be any
child
asking these questions, and that is something that is really going to
be
appealing to them. Children are going to
have lots of fun, even just imaging answers to the questions posed
throughout
the book. Plus, it gives good, simple
answers to children’s questions about where they came from, and how God
created
them.
The illustrations in the book
really help bring the text to life. As
an action is talked about from each body part, be it toes wiggling or
hands
clapping, we can see the child in the book doing the actions described. This is particularly helpful to younger kids
who may not understand everything in the book.
Plus, it may make some slightly older readers want to play out
what the
child in the book is doing for some added fun.
The language used
in the book
comes across as very child friendly. You
can actually imagine a child asking these questions about themselves
and the
day that God created them. And, it can
even give children a little learning experience about various parts of
their
own bodies and what they do.
‘When God Created My Toes’ is
a fun book that offers good, simple answers to kids about how God
created
them. Plus, it is also good for helping
kids use their imaginations, and it gives them a little bit of simple,
straight-forward learning about their body.