Engaging With Children

Air Date: 2015-11-17

Kids need to know they’re loved, but they also need hope. Children’s author, Sally Lloyd-Jones explains that children are easily discouraged when they sense they aren’t getting it right. Sally tells how her book, “Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing,” invites children to see what God-the Creator of everything-says about them, His true masterpieces. Sally wants children to know that God will turn everything bad into good in the end, and that the best is yet to come.

Sally Lloyd-Jones is a British-born children’s book writer who moved to the States in 1989 “just for a year or two”. She’s still here. Born in Kampala, Uganda, raised in East, and West Africa and at a boarding school in the New Forest, the first book Sally ever remembers reading all the way through was The Complete Nonsense by Edward Lear. Things have not been the same since. Sally worked in children’s book publishing for several years where her job was basically to come up with … Click Here for Full Bio