Last Friday saw the international launch party for Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Children of God. I wasn’t able to attend in person (our budgets didn’t stretch to jetting me out to Cape Town) but I’m told it was a fantastic event. The Archbishop recently announced his upcoming retirement from public life, and I think Children of God is a wonderful legacy that he is leaving to future generations.
The book includes over fifty of the Archbishop’s favourite Bible stories, retold in his own voice (and, on the audio edition, read by him personally). Many people assume that books by big names like Archbishop Tutu must be ghostwritten, and I think the real strength of Children of God is the way the book comes across as being his voice and his ideas.
There are also fantastic illustrators by artists from around the world. I think this blend of styles really makes Children of God stand out from all the many children’s Bibles that are out there.
We published it in the UK a couple of weeks back and it has instantly gone to the number 1 in the children’s Bible category. It was also number 1 on the whole of eden.co.uk for over a week.
We’ve also had some great press coverage ranging as widely as Saga Magazine and Liverpool Daily Post
Here’s an extract from the book read by the Archbishop:
And here’s his introduction to the purpose of Children of God.
Children of God is available as a printed book, audio CD, and digital audio-book.
