JENNY’S FAMILY TREE
By Ida Renotsay
Independently Published. 28 pages. £6.99
ISBN 979 8 585 271 694
‘When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?’ is the cry of David in Psalm 11. It is a cry that many thinking 21st-century Christians frequently echo.
One thing you can do is to faithfully teach your children the truth. While in schools, nurseries and libraries up and down the land the LGBTQ propaganda machine has been effectively busy in pushing out material which aims to shape children’s thinking by promoting and normalising homosexual behaviour and all the other lies that go with that, there have been few attempts from Christians to present Biblical truth about gender, marriage and family to the pre-school age-group.
This book is a positive, sensitive and creative attempt to address that gap. The writer tells the story of Jenny, depicted as a jigsaw piece, who longs for a family. The jigsaw motif demonstrates well how a sexual relationship with another girl, even her best friend, is literally not fitting. The story celebrates family and marriage, while still being positive about singleness. There are no awkward words or explicit pictures to make the parent of a pre-schooler blush or squirm. There are bright colours, simple graphics and, mostly, one clear sentence per page. A closer examination of many of the pages could form the basis of a discussion with a slightly older child.
The astute reader will recognise that the author’s name is a pseudonym for one who recognises, as many of us do, that there are some things we dare not say in the current climate. But we must continue to say them to our children. This book is a welcome instrument for that assignment. I applaud and commend it.
