M E AND MY FAM ILY
Patricia Weerakoon Illustrated by Lisa Flanagan
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Published July 2017 Reprinted 2018, 2021 Growing Faith An imprint of Anglican Youthworks PO Box A287 Sydney South NSW 1235 Ph: +612 8268 3309 Email: sales@youthworks.net Web: youthworksmedia.net Copyright Growing Faith © Patricia Weerakoon and Lisa Flanagan 2017 This book is copyright. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without the written permission of the Publisher. All Scripture quotations in this publication are from the Contemporary English Version Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by American Bible Society, used by permission. National Library of Australia ISBN 978-1-925041-92-7 Author: Patricia Weerakoon Illustrator: Lisa Flanagan Typesetting: Andrew Hope Editing Consultant: Penny Reeve Child Psychology Consultant: Alyson Officer
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This book is about you, and the people God has put in your family. 3
In the beginning, God made the world. He made plants and flowers and animals and birds. Everything God made was good! Including the very first person: the man, Adam.
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God made Adam in his own image and put him in a beautiful garden. Adam was happy in the garden and had fun with all the animals and birds. But God knew something was missing. 5
It wasn’t good for Adam to be on his own. So, God made a woman, Eve, and brought her to Adam. When Adam saw Eve he was excited! Here was someone who was just like him, but different from him too.
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One of the most important differences between Adam and Eve was how God made the parts of their bodies that allowed them to come together and make babies.
DID YOU KNOW? Another word for the eggs inside a woman is ‘ova’! One ovum is as big as a grain of sand while a single sperm is about 40 times smaller!
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