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About the Book

Book Title: What Color is God’s Love?

Author Name: Xochitl Dixon

Genre: Children’s Picture Book

Release Date: March 19, 2024

All the colors displayed in this world that God made—

every glorious, fabulous, beautiful shade—

show how good God is and will always be.

But what is the color of love? Come and see!

In What Color is God’s Love?, a little girl and her service dog join their diverse friends through a whirlwind of adventures. As they celebrate the spectacular spectrum of colors God designed, each color invites readers to explore their God-given emotions and becomes a reminder of God’s unchanging character.

While encouraging children to acknowledge God’s constant presence with every turn of the age, What Color is God’s Love? also empowers children, with and without disabilities, to play, work, and serve God together, by simply letting the colors of His love shine through them.

With each turn of the page, the focus shifts to a specific color—orange, yellow, blue, green, pink, black, white, gray, brown, red, purple. Each lyrical rhyme invites readers to engage with God through empowering and faith-building truth-statements that incite worship and encourage a lifestyle of loving God and neighbors.

What Color is God’s Love? is now available for pre-ordering on Amazon – https://amzn.to/4bSeCup

Interview with the Author

7. What are your favorite childhood books?

I loved reading, especially picture books and poetry out loud! I devoured anything by Dr. Seuss! I read and re-read Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. I cried through Where the Wild Fern Grows by Wison Rawls in 5^th grade. I didn’t understand why I loved Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, until I became a parent. Snowy Day was the only book I had ever seen with characters that looked like my diverse family and friends. 

I pray all God’s beautifully diverse image-bearers will feel seen and loved when they read my books. I pray they will know they matter and they belong because God created them to be wonderfully and marvelously different, on purpose!

8. Callie the Service Dog is featured in all your children’s books. You say she serves Jesus alongside you. How did you two start working together?

My husband and I followed God from California to Wisconsin in 2018. God used Carmen Leal, my first friend in Wisconsin, and NEW PAWSibilities, the rescue shelter she worked for, to bring us Callie. Then, in 2019, after my doctor said I needed to accept that I was disabled, a friend introduced us to Jake and Amanda Guell, the owners of Tails for Life, a professional service dog trainer who lived only fifteen minutes from our home.

Though a high percentage of mixed breeds can’t make it through a professional service dog training program, Jake saw that I was confident as a handler and Callie was eager to please and quick to learn. So, I put on a waiting list and started saving money. 

After my insurance refused to pay for a medication that would help me manage debilitating nerve pain in my spine and thoracic upper back, I had to use the money I had saved for Callie’s training. When I pulled Callie from the waiting list, Jake said he was praying for us and told me to share our story on Facebook. Within three days, God sent people, mostly strangers from around the world, to pay for her training in full. Then God used our Tails for Life family to prepare Callie to serve as my mobility dog.

Callie worked her first speaking event at Our Daily Bread, only three months into the program. She took her first cross-country trip less than six months into the program. By the end of her first year, God sent us back to California unexpectedly. I was nervous about leaving, but Jake said Callie could handle her job and so could I.

God uses Callie to love me and to help me love people, as we love Him by sharing His truth and love wherever and however He leads us.

Missed part of the Interview? Go Here

Q&A 1: https://www.artistwriterandstudentohmy.com/posts/what-color-is-gods-love-author-qa/
Q&A 2: https://www.guildmaster97.com/posts/what-color-is-gods-love-epic-book-launch/
Q&A 3: https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2024/02/epic-book-launch-what-color-is-gods.html
Q&A 4: http://kid-lit.library-lady.blog/epic-book-launch-and-interview-what-color-is-gods-love-xochitl-dixon/
Q&A 5: https://lakesidelivingsite.wordpress.com/2024/02/18/what-color-is-gods-love-epic-book-launch/
Q&A 6: https://www.amoderndayfairytale.net/2024/02/what-color-is-gods-love-epic-book-launch.html

About the Author – Xochitl Dixon

Xochitl (So-Cheel) Dixon, contributing writer for Our Daily Bread and God Hears Her, is the author of Waiting for God: Trusting Daily in God’s Plan and Pace. She loves Jesus and people, as she crosses cultural, generational, and international lines with encouraging and sound biblical teaching. Celebrating diversity and inclusion, she advocates for disability awareness with her beautifully diverse family and her service dog, Callie. Her first children’s picture book, Different Like Me, now available in Spanish, is a 2021 ECPA Christian Book Award Children’s Book Finalist. In March 2024, Xochitl’s second picture book, What Color is God’s Love?, is releasing with WaterBrook. She connects with readers at www.xedixon.com.

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