EL PADRE NUESTRO / The Lord's Prayer (Bilingual)

Miami: Vidaninos, 2011. New Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Richard Jesse Watson color illustrations. CONDITION: UNREAD 2011 VidaNinos hardcover (pictorial boards with red foil title front board panel) but no dust jacket issued. Decorated end pages. Color illustrations by Richard Jesse Watson. CONTENT: This provides the text of The Lord's Prayer in both English and Spanish with dual lines per page. Beautiful color illustrations. Warren Watson join forces for a thoughtful and visually appealing introduction to the Protestant version of the Lord's Prayer (with forgiveness for debts, not trespasses). Each line of the prayer serves as the text for a double-page spread with an illustration of a child (or several children) relating to that phrase in some imaginative way. For 'give us this day our daily bread,' a little boy feeds a flock of birds in a readily obvious choice of illustration, but for 'as it is in heaven,' a line of joyous children and animals (including a lion and a lamb) skip along in a procession into a mysterious swath of swirling stars and streaks of sunshine. The illustration for 'lead us not into temptation' is inspired, showing the image of a solemn-faced boy in a mirror against a dark background lit by a single candle. The final pages include smaller reproductions of each page with short commentary by Warren to help explain the meaning of each phrase of the prayer. Watson's light-filled, expressive paintings bring the famous prayer into focus for younger children with greater accessibility than any other currently available edition. Both highly useful and beautiful---an unusual and welcome combination. Questions welcome.