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God created this world to be full of color. Have you ever wondered what color is God’s love?
What Color Is God’s Love? by Xochitl Dixon, illustrated by Darshika Varma. WaterBrook, 2024. 40 pages.
- Reading Level: Picture books, ages 4-8
- Recommended For: Ages 0-8
What color is God’s love? Pumpkins are orange. Sunflowers are yellow. Frogs are green. Our world, the world God made, is bursting with color.
Each two-page spread in this book raises the question: what color is love? And each two-page spread focuses on one particular color. Beginning with tangible objects in that color (i.e., frogs), the text raises the question, “Is love green (or another color) like…?” The answer?
Each answer is a feeling associated with that color (green gives confidence). Illustrations depict both the colored objects mentioned and the emotion or feeling associated. Taken as a whole, they show that God’s love is all the colors together.
The illustrations in this book are bursting with color and exuberance. It’s a little too vibrant to be restful, but the point of the book is that God’s love is vibrant. He made us a vibrant, colorful world; why wouldn’t His love be the same?
Illustrations depict a nice variety of people, in all skin colors. While children feature most prominently, several adults appear, including an older woman in a wheelchair, a dad with a baby, and others. We love this type of representation, normalizing all the many ways God has made people.
Bottom Line: What Color Is God’s Love? would make a great classroom read aloud for a kindergarten class!
Recommended Reading at Redeemed Reader
- Review: If Jesus Came to My School would make a great companion read aloud to What Color Is God’s Love?.
- Reviews: Other books that naturally weave people of different skin colors into the story include For Every Little Thing (note the considerations for this one), My Block Looks Like (fantastic illustrations and vibrant in a very different way than What Color Is God’s Love?), and Emma and Julia Love Ballet (for all your little ballerinas!).
- Reviews: More fun with color: Kitten Red, Yellow, Blue; The Crayon Man; and Charlie Harper’s Book of Colors
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