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When bestselling author Sally Lloyd-Jones began writing Jesus, Our True Friend: Stories to Fill Your Heart With Joy, her new picture book, she didn’t set out to write a book about friendship. But, she said, “a book knows what it wants to be before you do.”

“I started working on a few stories I hadn’t told before,” the British author told The Christian Post. “And as I put them together, I realized the theme of it all was, He was a friend to the friendless. He came to be with us. He’s not distant or judging us. He’s right alongside us. So the whole theme became friendship.”

The new Zonderkids book, illustrated by longtime collaborator Jago and released this week, gathers seven stories from Jesus’ life, told in the lyrical prose that has made Lloyd-Jones one of the most bel

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