God Made Me Unique: Helping Children See Value in Every Person by Joni and Friends Book Review

God Made Me Unique helps Christian parents and caregivers teach children that God creates every person in the image of God and each individual has tremendous value, regardless of his or her appearance or abilities. The story is set in a classroom where a new student is introduced who has a disability and his classmates learn to ask questions and gain an understanding about their new friend.

God Made Me Unique will help eliminate fear and misconceptions about those who have special needs and emphasizes that every person deserves to be treated with kindness and respect. The inviting illustrations and rhyming prose make this a fun and engaging read for even little children to help them understand the complexity of a vast variety of disabilities and that each person was made by God and deserves to be treated with love and respect. Children often have many questions about disabilities thanks to their curious minds so the back of the book has additional information and resources to equip parents to talk with their children about this important subject. 

My Thoughts:

As a mom with a child with disabilities I’m always so grateful to find books that talk about kids with disabilities. This is one of the best ones I’ve seen.

The setting is in the Sunday school classroom at church when a child who has disabilities is introduced. Wyatt looks pretty normal on the outside and he is spinning a fidget spinner. The kids start talking about kids with different disabilities from being in a wheelchair. It goes on to say that, “God made me unique; it is part of His plan.”

Just because we are different doesn’t mean they should be excluded from activities like playing ball.

I love that the story talks about that some disabilities you can see and others are unseen. You see kids in a wheelchair, braces to walk, using ASL, and even sensory issues. The class has a mixture of disabilities.

In the back of the book there is a guide:4 Ways to Help Your Child Understand Uniqueness and Disability as Part of God’s Plan. It gives you some ways to talk to your kids and some other resources you can look into.

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