A Child's Book of Prayers

by Michael Hague

Michael Hague's beautifully illustrated, best-selling collection of traditional prayers is now available in an updated board book format. From "The Lord's Prayer" to "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep," the verses included are familiar, comforting, and appropriate for even the youngest child. The art is full of love and spirit, presenting a reassuring vision of the world.

Genres: Picture Books, Religion, Childrens

20 pages, Board Book

First published December 15, 1985

About the author

Michael Hague is renowned as the illustrator of many children's classics, including editions of The Wizard Of Oz, Peter Pan, The Hobbit, and The Velveteen Rabbit. He also illustrated The Book of Ghosts, Where Fairies Dance, The Book of Wizards, and The Book of Fairy Poetry as well as wrote and illustrated the graphic novel in The Small. Michael lives with his wife, Kathleen, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Reviews

[E.J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I just started reading this book with my two year old before bed. The illustrations are simply beautiful and heartwarming; but some of the prayers or poems collected I had to skip over because they were unscriptural (e.g., praying to the apostles, Mark, Luke, and angels to provide protection. No one in scripture has prayed to saints who are now asleep in Christ; we especially don’t pray to angels.). I could not read those out loud to my son; otherwise, there were Bible passages and other beautiful poems in there that we read together. I also had to switch the old archaic words like “Thou,” “Thine,” and “Thy” to common pronoun usage.

[KathKin · Rating 4 out of 5]

a truly beautiful book of old and new prayers for children. Some were very familiar, but many were new. This is a book to read aloud to a child, as some of the language is a bit archaic. But they many of the prayers are poems, and sometimes the actual words are not that important. If I still had little children, I'd be happy to red this soothing book over and over again.

[Rahim Hython · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Child's Book of Prayers is very special to me because this book was given to me by my godmother who passed away a few years ago. I would say it's a beautiful book and it's very relatable to my childhood, the typical books I would read growing up being a child of a pastor. A Child's Book of Prayers is a prayer book for very young children. Even if the reader isn't spiritual or follow a certain religion, they could find a sense of peace reading and be admired by the illustration. I would say this book is perfect for ages 0-2.

[Kit · Rating 2 out of 5]

A beautiful book, but not a book filled with prayers that would be comprehensible to the normal board-book reading child. Many of the prayers use archaic language.

[Margaret Chind · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy Michael Hague's art and illustrations. This is attractive and has many prayers I'm familiar with from other kiddos books.