Books with a religious message...

Two books have long been favorites of mine:The King at the Doorby Brock Cole and Yellow & Pinkby William Steig.
These are beautifully written and illustrated books by well-known authors---although the two books may not be as well-known. They deserve a wider audience.
No matter what your religious beliefs, they will give you something to think about. In The King at the Door, an old ragged man shows up at the door of the inn. He claims to be the King, and no one believes him but Little Baggit, the boy who works there. The old man claims to have been walking over the kingdom without his money, and requests food, water, and various other things. The innkeeper, not believing him, offers him various insulting garbage. When the king wants a coat to wear, the innkeeper offers him the old coat the dog has been sleeping on. Little Baggit rushes to give the old man his own coat. The old man promises to return in his royal carriage and bring Little Baggit to live with him at the palace. The innkeeper ridicules this. And on the final page.....a royal carriage returning for Little Baggit.
Yellow & Pinkare two wooden puppets, lying out on a hillside with wet paint on them. They theorize on how they might have gotten there, how, over millions of years, chunks of wood could have fallen from trees, been carved and shaped by the weather, and then eventually paint could have fallen on them. At the end of the book, a man walks up, puts them under his arm, and walks away. "Who is this guy?" Yellow asked Pink. Pink didn't know...An interesting counter to the theory of evolution.