If you’re looking for a loving, matter-of-fact way to teach children about our Heavenly Parents, Deseret Book has a new picture book for you from the authors of the “Girls Who Choose God” books. McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady Spalding, the co-authors, joined with illustrator Caitlin Connolly to create Our Heavenly Family, Our Earthly Families, which was released last week.
It’s exciting (and about time) that the LDS Church’s official publishing arm is releasing a book that talks openly and unapologetically about Heavenly Mother as a deity who loves, leads, and guides us.
It’s also exciting (and long, long past time) to have such a book show earthly fathers and mothers as equal partners in raising their children without falling into gender stereotypes.
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