The Forgetful Prince, Your Family and God’s Family

We all love stories.

Key points

• The Forgetful Prince began as an adventure concocted by dad and pastor Matt.
• Complete with personal elements and traits of the Redmond kids, Matt’s words are coloured by his wife Lauren’s illustrations.
• The Forgetful Prince offers free resources as well as encouragements to consider foster care.
• Hear the full conversations in the listeners above.

Children tend to be big, big, big fans of stories and, perhaps you have told them a tale or two.

Coming up with a story to entertain the kids before bedtime is one thing.

The Forgetful Prince began as an adventure concocted by dad and pastor Matt.

Quite another to engage the whole family in the process of bringing your made-up story to families everywhere.

As Hope Morning’s Ben McEachen found out, the Redmond family from suburban Sydney teamed up for The Forgetful Prince.

A charming picture book about remembering who we are as children of God, The Forgetful Prince began as an adventure concocted by dad and pastor Matt.

Complete with personal elements and traits of the Redmond kids, The Forgetful Prince blossomed into a book project where Matt’s words were coloured by his wife Lauren’s illustrations.

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Plenty of input from the whole Redmond family were poured into The Forgetful Prince‘s finished product.

As Matt and Lauren explained to Hope Mornings, they want to help kids and adults to not forget the goodness of God and the wonder of being in his family.

Complete with personal elements and traits of the Redmond kids, Matt’s words are coloured by his wife Lauren’s illustrations.

More than a book, The Forgetful Prince offers free resources as well as encouragements to consider foster care.

The Redmonds hope we surge from The Forgetful Prince‘s tale of meaningful memory to real-world impact upon our own stories of eternal adoption.

Listen to the full interviews with Matt and Lauren Redmond in the players above.

Article supplied with thanks to Ben McEachen. Ben is Hope 103.2’s Mornings host. Ben was a full-time movie reviewer for more than a decade, including for Open House, The Big Picture, The Advertiser and Empire. Before Hope, he was deputy editor of Eternity News.

All images supplied by Matt and Lauren Redmond.