Picture Book: What Happens When I Talk to God

Title of Book: What Happens When I Talk to God

Author: Stormie Omartian

Illustrator:Shari Warren

Publisher:Harvest House Publishers

ISBN:978-0-7369-5885-1

What Happens When I Talk to God is a picture book is a children's picture book that explains the concept of prayer. It explains what prayer is, its purpose, and how to do it. Prayer is demonstrated as simply speaking to God as you would speak to a friend, anytime and anywhere. You can speak about good things or bad things. You can pray for blessings over others. Most importantly, the book teaches that even children can talk (pray) to God. 

There is a huge portion of time spent on how prayer is used to give thanks for all our blessings.

Being of a Christian background, I give this book 4 out of 4 starts. The story is great for reading aloud to children and the illustrations are very interactive and go great with the message of the book. One thing that caught my and really impressed me is that it is prohibited to sell this book or give it away to raise funds of for any purpose considered for profit. The goal of the publisher is to get the message across and I admire that. I see the information found in this book as the equivalent of the message being taught at any evangelical Sunday school and a message I myself instill in my own children. I know many may be opposed to a book that educates on religion, but I think as long as the book is of a message that is being taught at home as part of family values, I don't see anything wrong with it. To be honest, My children and I discuss several religions and respect each persons faith. My older two have actually read literature on other religions and were very surprised to find that many religions have several similarities. As for my review of What Happens When I Talk to God. I'd encourage it be read to all children.