The text was awful. It was written in a very point-by-point fashion that is barely interesting to an adult with a passion for religious tradition - I can imagine how dull it would be for a child who has a smaller tolerance for dullness. Take this sentence from the biography of Saint Lawrence for example, "Valerian hoped that if the flock of Christians had no shepherds, they would hopefully scatter" (emphasis mine).That being said, the illustrations were beautiful - significantly raising my rating of the book. It's worth it if we intend to use it as a picture book, or if parents fill in their own stories based on the text rather than just reading it out.
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