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New Children’s Story Bibles Rethink How Christians Share Old Stories With Young Readers

Illustration of the three wise men in “The Jesus Storybook Bible” by Sally Lloyd-Jones. Courtesy image

Its illustrations, by the artist Jago, also featured characters with more “historically accurate skin tones,” the publisher said.

But what once made “The Jesus Storybook Bible” a rarity is becoming more common, she said.

The proposed table of contents in Clark’s “Book of Belonging” includes the stories of prophetess Miriam, Queen Esther and the women in Jesus’ lineage. Asking where the women in her daughter’s Bible were led her to other questions: Why was God gendered? Why were so many of the angels blonde? Why was the Holy Spirit never mentioned?

The author wrote on Kickstarter last week that she was “unbelievably grateful (and still a little bit in shock!)” to have surpassed her crowdfunding goal to launch “The Book of Belonging.” “Once you start asking questions and looking for change, it’s contagious. It’s intersectional. One issue grabs after the other,” Clark said.

And she hopes it will help more children to see themselves in the stories of the Christian faith.

“I want my daughter to be a disciple of Jesus, and it would be helpful for her to see herself as just that — a disciple of Jesus,” she said.

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