Arlo and the Great Big Cover-Up | 
panI liked this book until they started talking about sin and God. Arlo has drawn on his wall with a marker. He does get punished with no “screen time”. The story should have ended with Arlo‘s mom helping to clean things up. Instead it goes into a lecture on sin and trying to hide our sin from god. NO THANK YOU. On a side note, the characters in this book are Black, but the author is not. The race of the illustrator is unknown.
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Catherine_Willoughby Kids Books shouldn't be pushing any religious agenda - they can incorporate faith to show kindness or acceptance among other faiths . Sounds like this kids book has an hard core religious agenda - maybe towards african audience? FROM my personal experience most Christian Africans or those of African heritage are very religious. Some have pushed their faith towards me . 4y
Catherine_Willoughby I am an atheist but have incorporated my children into my mothers faith as that was her wish (my nan was very religious. Her own mother lived among the Local ministers) 4y
Catherine_Willoughby I do not drill religion into them but they are exposed to my mothers church through attends with my dad (who goes still after my mothers death. Its not his orginal faith) and go to a faith seconday school. Our family has a deep link with our local church but I no longer attend church but do have an interest in the historical aspects of our faith in non fiction & fiction 4y
LibrarianRyan @Catherine_Willoughby I was raised with church and many of my family are die hard Lutheran. I‘m questioning. My problem with god in books is that you can not use them in a public library story time. Maybe some libraries can but most I have worked at can not. Most religious picture book are obvious. If I had paid attention to the publisher I would have caught it. This one was good until it got preachy. If it had cut off the end it would be 5 ⭐️ 4y
DAB This conversation had me curious as bout this book. 4y