God’s Big Plan

Written by Elizabeth F. Caldwell and Theodore Hiebert

Illustrated by Katie Yamasaki

Flyaway Books, 2019

About This Book

God’s Big Plan, by theologians Theodore Hiebert and Elizabeth F. Caldwell, is a progressive retelling of the Tower of Babel story from the Book of Genesis about how God’s original plan was always for diversity. I’m not a particularly religious person, but it resonated with the way I was raised, with the values of both my Japanese-American and French/Irish/Catholic Worker backgrounds and I’m happy it’s in the world. It was a joy to paint the people of this region of the world, and also refreshing to hear God spoken about without gender. God is just God in this book. And what a delight to finally return to my original medium of collage here.

“Readers are taken from the world and people of ancient Babylon to divers,e modern children eating around a table, giving child readers the opportunity to relate to and see themselves reflected in the story. This is a provocative vehicle for introducing ideas of diversity to young readers.” — Kirkus Review

Read the full review here.