Using the words of the Lord’s Prayer as a framework, this delightful anthology of traditional and modern prayers from around the world will inspire children who are starting to pray by themselves and those who pray with them.

Dear God,

Thank you for the people who invented medicines,

like penicillin and vaccinations;

for all the medicines

that stop you dying from things like measles and smallpox and chickenpox.

Please allow people to make more medicines

until every single illness can be cured:

bacteria illnesses and virus illnesses.

I know you made all this amazing lovely universe

but I would like it if the dying rate could go down very slowly, year by year. Amen.

Andrew Hood (age 6) from Pocket Prayers for Children

Bread is a lovely thing to eat -

God bless the barley and the wheat,

A lovely thing to breathe is air -

God bless the sunshine everywhere.

The earth's a lovely place to know -

God bless the folks that come and go!

Alive's a lovely thing to be - giver of life - we say - bless thee.

Anon from Pocket Prayers for Children

Sample pages from this book are available to download. Please use the 'Downloads' link below to view or download these pages.

Christopher Herbert is Bishop of St Albans and the author of a number of books on prayer. He is also the compiler of Pocket Prayers and Words of Comfort.