Matthew Paul Turner is a photographer, speaker, and author of numerous books, including the bestselling When God Made You and When I Pray for You
ECPA bestseller
A mother with wide, emerald eyes cradles her blanketed infant:
“from the moment I saw you,/ I started to pray./ Big prayers and
small ones/ I have sent God’s way.” As the child grows from a baby
to a girl, the mother is encouraging yet watchful: “I pray you grow
strong, have passion and fight./ And stand up for what’s good with
all of your might.” Barnes’s ebullient artwork shows the child at a
pool party, reading to her peers in a book nook, and playing in a
band. A final spread shows that the child has not yet grown up;
instead, the mother holds her baby on a hilltop under a gentle sky,
projecting a life to come. New moms will welcome the wistful tone
and scenes of a child’s joyful discoveries. Ages 3–7. (Feb.)
-Publishers Weekly
In this cheerful, reflective rhyming children’s picture book,
author Matthew Paul Turner shares a parent’s prayer for a child to
grow up in the love and light of God: “I pray you love well.\ That
the light in you swells.\ That the story God writes is the one that
you tell.” The parent prays for the child’s joys, achievements,
fears, and dreams, reminding the child, “When I pray for you, I
imagine God’s view\ And pray all that God sees comes alive inside
you.” Turner’s hopeful, encouraging poetry is complemented by
illustrator Kimberley Barnes’s pictures of vivacious, ethnically
diverse characters and bright, buoyant settings of home,
playground, nature, and more. When I Pray for You would
make an excellent gift to parents of newborns and to children at
the time of their baptism. (WaterBrook, 2019)
-The Banner
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