Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're using poetic, lyrical language, and we're distilling stories down into their simplest form. We're both telling a story… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book. — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When you lose the story that's running like a golden stream underneath all the other stories, you're left with the idea that the Bible… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos.… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
If you write for children with respect and treat them with dignity - you'll capture the adults as well. Children deserve nothing but our… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
So that when you come to read the actual Bible you have a lay of the land. And you come to the Bible knowing… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“But Jesus could see inside people. And inside, in their hearts, Jesus saw that they did not love God or other people. They were… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're using poetic,… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Jesus told them, "God is like the dad who couldn't stop loving his boy, And people are like the son who said, "Does my… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book. — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I wrote The Jesus Storybook Bible because I wanted children to know the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you're supposed to be… — Sally Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
