My most recent book I received from Thomas Nelson Publishing is Redefining Beautiful by Jenna Lucado. This book geared for young girls through their teens strives to help them understand beauty, not the worlds version, but natural beauty outside and most importantly inside.
After just skimming the book, I hesitated to think there would be anything of depth simply because I found catch words like "self esteem" and began to think it may just be a book aiming to build one's self image. However, afterwards, I read it through and found that although it did include some of that, it also goes above and beyond to draw young girls to seeing the LORD as the One who loves them more than any other can and points them to remembering that He created them uniquely and for a purpose.
Throughout the book, the author gives much practical advice on growing as a girl. It includes information about makeup, hair, clothing styles, boys, but it also counteracts all of that with paying attention to some heart matters also. That is what keeps it from being a fluff book that centers attention only on the outward appearance as many secular teen books do.
This would actually be a good book for a young girl who may tend to give ear to the world's version of beautiful. It could certainly help put her on the right track as far as how consumed she gets with the outward appearance. She would see how perfectly imperfect and original He made us all and how that is to be celebrated. She would also learn not to measure herself by the worlds standards and learn a much better and more thorough definition of the word beautiful.
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