Some of these books are "sacred," and some are "secular." Especially for young kids, I like to blur this distinction. For older kids, it's important to talk about why we make a distinction. Some books that aren't explicitly Christian, like To Kill a Mockingbird, nevertheless make strong statements about what it means to be a Christian in the world.
For the sake of time, I'm not linking all these books to Amazon. Besides, it's always better to buy books in person or through a vendor that needs your money more than Amazon does. In Seattle, we have both the Episcopal Bookstore and the St. Mark's Cathedral Shop. You may have equivalent vendors in your context.
A Godparent’s Guide to Giving Books to Children
Compiled by Josh Hosler; please send additions,
corrections, comments to josh.hosler@gmail.com. Feel free to quibble with me about minimum ages, and keep recommending more books, especially for older kids and teens.
For yourself:
Elaine Ramshaw, The
Godparent Book: Ideas and Activities for Godparents and Their Godchildren
Web Resources
Books, Religious and Otherwise
Sophie Piper, My
Baptism Book (age 2+)
Sam McBratney, Guess
How Much I Love You (age 2+)
Margaret Wise Brown, The
Runaway Bunny (age 2+)
Peter Spier, People
(age 2+)
Angela Elwell Hunt, The
Tale of Three Trees (age 2+)
Marie-Helene Delval, Images
of God for Young Children (age 2+)
Robert Munsch, Love
You Forever (age 2+)
Joan Sauro, Does God
Ever Sleep? (age 2+)
Walter Wangerin, Jr., Water,
Come Down! The Day You Were Baptized (age 2+)
Phyllis Root, Big Mama
Makes the World (age 2+)
Desmond Tutu, God’s
Dream (age 3+)
Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, In God’s Name (age 3+)
Lisa Tawn Bergren, God
Gave Us … (series) (age 3+)
Nancy Tillman, On the
Night You Were Born (age 3+)
Tomie diPaola, The
Legend of Old Befana (age 3+)
Tomie diPaola, The
Song of St. Francis (age 3+)
Shel Silverstein, The
Giving Tree (age 3+)
Dav Pilkey, God Bless
the Gargoyles (age 4+)
Douglas Wood, Old Turtle
(age 4+)
Jane G. Meier, When
God Made You (age 4+)
William Steig, The
Magic Pebble (age 4+)
Tomie DiPaolo, The
Clown of God (age 4+)
Walter Wangerin, Jr. – Water,
Come Down! (The Day You Were Baptized) (age 4+)
Max Lucado – You Are
Special (age 4+)
Marcia Brown, Stone
Soup (age 5+)
Patricia Polacco, The
Keeping Quilt (age 5+)
Margery Williams, The
Velveteen Rabbit (age 5+)
C.S. Lewis, The
Chronicles of Narnia (age 6+)
Dr. Seuss, The Butter
Battle Book (age 6+)
Madeleine L’Engle, The
Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas (age 6+)
J.K. Rowling, Harry
Potter series (age 7+)
Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince (age 8+)
Madeleine L’Engle, A
Wrinkle in Time; A Wind in the Door; A Swiftly Tilting Planet (age 9+)
Deborah Wiles, Each
Little Bird That Sings (age 9+)
Lois Lowry, Number the
Stars (age 9+)
Lois Lowry, The Giver
(age 10+)
Enid Blyton, The Land
of Far Beyond (age 10+)
Kim Moss, Leaving
Nelson (age 11+)
Katherine Paterson, Bridge
to Terebithia (age 11+)
Madeleine L’Engle, Meet
the Austins; The Moon by Night; A Ring of Endless Light (age 11+)
J.R.R. Tolkien, The
Hobbit (age 12+)
Harper Lee, To Kill a
Mockingbird (age 12+)
Mark Yaconelli, Wonder,
Fear, and Longing: A Book of Prayers (age 13+)
C.S. Lewis, Till We
Have Faces (age 14+)
Jennifer Gamber & Sharon Ely Pearson, Call on Me: A Prayer Book for Young People
(age 14+)
The Book of Common Prayer (age 14+/confirmation)
Bibles
Tomie diPaola, The
Illustrated Children’s Bible (age 3+)
Marie-Hélène Delval, The
Bible for Young Children (age 3+)
Sally Lloyd-Jones, The
Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name (age 4+)
Eugene Peterson, My
First Message (age 4+)
Desmond Tutu, Children
of God Bible (age 5+)
Ralph Milton, The
Family Story Bible (age 5+)
Brendan Powell Smith, The
Brick Bible: The Complete Set (age 9+)
Christopher Miko, The
Unofficial Holy Bible for Minecrafters: A Children’s Guide to the Old and New
Testament (age 9+)
Siku, The Manga Bible:
From Genesis to Revelation (age 12+)
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