God’s Very Colorful CreationBy Tim Thornborough and Illustrated by Jennifer Davison

This article was first published in French at TPSG.

“What’s your favorite colour?” I must have heard this question a hundred times from the lips of my daughters when they were little. Like most children, they loved to colour and enjoyed having a great variety of markers, so that they could fill their sketchbooks with all the diversity their minds could imagine.

God Loves to Colour!

God, too, loves to colour! And he demonstrates this in the way he splashes his canvas with every colour conceivable. Aren’t we glad God doesn’t create the world in black and white? He fills the universe with vibrant colours of every shade of the rainbow!

In this storybook written for children ages 2-4, Tim Thornborough and Jennifer Davison bring to life the creation account by focusing on all the colours with which God paints the heavens and the earth.

Lessons Beyond Language Acquisition

For any parent wanting to teach their little ones their colours, the descriptive range of colours named on its pages allows kids to learn far more than the seven colours of the rainbow. As I read this book in French, I learned some new terms myself! But beyond serving as a language lesson, this dazzling display of every hue imaginable highlights the glory of God’s design in creation. 

Walking the reader through each of the seven days of creation, Thornborough and Davison hone in on the bright and beautiful work of God’s hands, from sky and oceans and mountains and trees, to a panoply of birds, fish, and land animals. Each one displaying the wonder of God’s good work. 

The Colorful Crown of His Creation

God saves the best for last, creating man and woman in his image. He calls them to multiply and fill the earth. And in so doing, God creates humans with many skin tones and hair colours. And he declares that it is good, very good!

Diversity is God’s Idea

The central message of this beautifully illustrated children’s book is that diversity is God’s idea. He makes every colour of the rainbow, and he makes every shade of skin tone known to humanity. What an important way to introduce our little ones to the wonderful diversity of God’s creation and of humanity in simple terms. Find "God’s Very Colorful Creation" here.

(Speaking of which, try not to cry as you watch this video of a grandpa seeing colours for the first time in his life).