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The two stars are mostly for the illustrations, which are very well done. I felt that the story itself was a bit watered down—it would’ve been better had it been simplified to make it easier for kids to understand rather than watered down. Some important details were left out, like the fact that Jesus didn’t come to earth to be everybody’s nicest friend, comfort sad people and dance with the village people. He was also very bold in his opposition to sin, and the book doesn’t really mention that. It makes it sound like sin and darkness was something that simply afflicts people on earth, not something that originates from inside of them. The book redeems itself when the gospel is clearly explained at the end, taking sin nature properly into account. I only wish that had been woven throughout the story a little better. 

I read this for the Visual Theology reading challenge, which has several prompts for kids books—something I don’t read much of in this stage of life for obvious reasons! But it’s a good opportunity to hopefully find some good ones that I can store up for future children if I’m blessed with any.