Tim Bankes II - Greater Creator

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to enjoy this story. You have given me a very important responsibility. The reason I started to write children's books is threefold: reading them to my nephew, reading them to my newborn son, and the lack of reading that happened in my childhood. Firstly, my sister thought I could read well aloud, and that I was an animated story teller. Every time I would visit her kids, she would ask me to read to them. This was my first experience reading children's books to kids, it was so enjoyable and satisfying to see them engaged in the book and excited to read certain ones over and over again.

S ECOND, I BECAME A Christian at the age of 16. Since, becoming a Christian changed my approach to reading. Once Christ came into my life I read the New Testament in one semester of school and since then have read over 250 books. Reading gives you power and freedom, so I wanted to give back and pass that value on to my own son.

So I read over 300 children's books in the first 6 months of his life. I would walk into the library with a storage box, fill it up with books, and then read to him multiple books a day. Reading him all those books made me realize the power this form of communication has on young minds.

Lastly, the only way I fixed my poor reading was to read many books, and the one thing that is definitely worth reading, to me, are books about God. My goal is that when you read to them, you can be assured that my books will give them an accurate view of God, and that it will be something they remember forever, instead of just mindless entertainment.

My Christian children's books in this series will be explicitly about God. They are not about being a Christian or really coming to Christ (even though it does contain the gospel message). My goal is to shape children's minds about God because He is both their Creator and Savior. The heart of Christianity is God, not morality.

It is imperative that parents share their faith with their kids. My parents believed in the Christian message but did not ever share it with us as children. I know that many parents struggle to explain their faith in a way that children can digest. The dialogues in this picture book will serve as inspirations for your parenting, so that you can begin to have conversations with your children about "heavenly things".

Tim says to Noe, Hey Noe, are you ready to go to Granddad Wills house? Noe responds, Granddad lives far away, but I like visiting him.

Noe asks Tim, Why does Granddad live so far outside of town?

Tim replys, Well, Granddad Will is a farmer, so he has to live far outside of town in order to have plenty of land for his farm.

Tim adds, Grandad is also a Pastor of a small church near where he lives.

Noe asks, Does Grandad talk about God when he is talking at church?

Tim responds, Yes, Grandad teaches about God using Gods Word, the Bible.

Tim asks Noe, Do you want to know something cool about God?

Noe responds, Yeah, what do you know about God, Papa?

Tim says Did you know that God is a father to a son just like I am to you?

Noe responds, Wow, thats really great! What is Gods sons name?

Tim says Gods Son is named Jesus.

Noe thinks for a minute. Then Noe asks, How can God have a son?

Tim responds Nobody knows how they became Father and Son, they have always been Father and Son.

Tim says, Jesus is the Son of God but weirdly enough He is also God alongside the Father God. The best thing about Jesus is that He did not just remain as God only, but He became a human too.