Lent & Easter

Stories inside

Three example books from this collection. Every story is written fresh from your own prompt, so no two families end up with the same one.

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  Story 01

  The First Easter Morning

  An empty tomb at sunrise, and joy that runs all the way back to tell everyone.

  It begins in the half dark with people walking to a grave expecting nothing, which is the right place for it to begin.

  Your child is with them on the path. They see the stone moved, they look into the empty tomb, and they are part of the run back through the waking city to tell everyone.

  The sadness gets its due before the turn, so the joy is not cheap. Nothing frightening is shown, and it is all lit by sunrise.

  What it draws on

  The walk at dawn, the stone rolled aside, the empty tomb, and the running back.

  Your child's part

  On the path at first light, and among the first to know.

  Start their story

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  Story 02

  Palm Sunday

  Branches on the road, a donkey, and a crowd that cannot stop cheering.

  A city gate, a borrowed donkey, and a crowd losing its composure completely. Palm Sunday is the noisiest day in the church year and these stories lean into it.

  Your child is in the thick of the crowd with a branch of their own, drawn from the photos you upload so they are recognisable in every spread.

  Then it goes quiet. The crowd thins, the road is covered in trodden palm leaves, and the week ahead is only hinted at, which is as much as a young child needs.

  What it draws on

  The donkey, the cloaks and branches on the road, the shouting crowd, and the quiet after.

  Your child's part

  In the crowd with a palm branch, right at the front.

  Start their story

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  Story 03

  Forty Days in the Desert

  Learning that saying no to something small can make room for something better.

  Lent is a hard idea to hand a child, because giving something up for no visible reward makes very little sense at six years old.

  These stories explain it sideways, by telling the forty days and letting your child walk a few steps behind. The desert is drawn wide and pale and quiet, and the quiet is the point.

  It closes on the way back out, and on the plain idea that saying no to something small can leave room for something better.

  What it draws on

  The walk into the desert, forty days of quiet, the choices, and the walk back out.

  Your child's part

  A few steps behind, and keeping him company.

  Start their story