This Is What I Pray Today: Divine Hours Prayers For Children: Divine Hours Prayers for Children

Celebratory and comforting, simple and sweet, here is an illustrated book of prayer that serves as a kind of breviary for children. With three original, psalm-based prayers for each day of the week, children have a new prayer each morning, rest time, and bedtime. This is a book of days that will appeal to children of the many faiths that incorporate fixed-hour prayer, such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

With broad, gentle language and soft, soothing art, This Is What I Pray Today is a beautifully packaged volume that includes a ribbon bookmark and offers even the youngest children prayers for Sunday, Monday, and every day of the week.

Celebratory and comforting, simple and sweet, here is an illustrated book of prayer that serves as a kind of breviary for children. With three original, psalm-based prayers for each day of the week, children have a new prayer each morning, rest time, and bedtime. This is a book of days that will appeal to children of the many faiths that incorporate fixed-hour prayer, such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

With broad, gentle language and soft, soothing art, This Is What I Pray Today is a beautifully packaged volume that includes a ribbon bookmark and offers even the youngest children prayers for Sunday, Monday, and every day of the week.

Children's Literature

Praying at specific times in the day, an ancient adult discipline, is here extended to the youngest children. Three prayers for each day of the week are given: for waking up, naptime, and bedtime. The variously rhymed poems with uneven meter are broadly based on Psalms. Much repetition of phrase will appeal to the youngest set. The last verse of Wednesday s bedtime prayer says: God, be above me / God, be below me / God, please watch beside me / Until there is another day. This is based on Psalm 72:17. Soft watercolor paintings of natural settings accompany the first prayer of each day and border the other prayers. Illustrations of a farm with sheep, a forest, a child being pushed on a swing, and waves lapping the shore give serene settings. This is part of The Divine Hours series. Parents wishing to instill the habit of prayer in young children may find this helpful. Reviewer: Carlee Hallman

Phyllis Tickle is the author of some two dozen books about prayer and spirituality, including the Divine Hours™ series of prayer manuals for adults. She lives in Tennessee.

Elsa Warnick is the illustrator of several books for children. She lives in Portland, Oregon.