What do I love more: Tudor's wonderful visual interpretations of this ancient prayer, or the corgyn on every page? (I love them both so much.) The one odd choice is "deliver us from evil," in which a little girl clutches her corgi in a nuclear wasteland, complete with mushroom cloud. Tudor published this book just two years before the fall of the iron curtain. I would have found that page frightening as a child and it doesn't exactly represent deliverance from evil to me. Yet, overall, the effect is splendid, and this is a wonderful way to introduce littles to the Tyndale/1549 BCP version of the prayer (trespasses instead of debts).
Lovely illustrations to go with a wonderful portion of Scripture.
Ages: 3+
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A short but sweet artistic rendering of William Tyndale's translation of the Lord's Prayer. The artwork, despite being specific to a time, place, and culture, reflects the message of the prayer well. This book even includes, for "But deliver us from evil", the only dark/ ugly work I've ever seen by Tasha Tudor. It was chillingly appropriate, dark, and scary. The rest of the artwork, however, is Tudor's usual innocent, charmingly old-fashioned art. Overall, this is a charming way to work through the Lord's Prayer with a child, or a simple brief devotional/ meditation for an adult, even. Beautiful work.