Reddit reviews What Is God?

Depending on the age of the kid, these could be some good ones:

What Do You Believe?

See Inside World Religions

The Belief Book and others in that series

What is God? (this one does presuppose some kind of a higher power, but compares its depiction across many religions and suggests that god is in us/everywhere around us/basically the concept of good)

I Wonder (not specifically about religion, but more about the idea that science can answer some questions but not yet all - some things are a mystery that we can only wonder about)

Also definitely recommend including some books on the scientific version of the creation story (i.e. the big bang, evolution, etc) so kids have that perspective to draw on as well. Again depending on the age, some good ones are:

Older Than the Stars

Big Bang: The Tongue-Tickling Tale of a Speck That Became Spectacular

One Day a Dot: The Story of You, The Universe, and Everything

Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story

Grandmother Fish

Sapiens: Our Human Evolution

Hope some of those are helpful! :)

My parents gave me this book when I was a child. It really helped me understand religious diversity. My grandparents also gave me a book of Bible stories for kids that had stories from the Old Testament in it, too (some of the ugly ones), and whenever I wanted to read a religious text my parents would get it for me. Basically, my parents made sure that I never wanted for knowledge.

Hey OP, this is the book that my formerly Catholic now atheist parents read to me as a kid.

It's a pretty simple read, meant for kids, about the fact that many people envision God - and by proxy, religion in general - in many different ways. And, of course, that some people don't believe in any God, or some just aren't sure.

I think discussion is a good thing, because kids will encounter religion, all around them, from a young age. Learning early on that many people think they have the one right answer was, for me, the first step to understanding that maybe people just don't actually have the answers, and maybe all this "God" business is just something that different groups of people have made up in their own unique ways and told stories about over the centuries.

Anyways, highly recommend the book. Bonus points if you get your kid to read some of it!

Yep absolutely, as long as they are getting a broad spectrum of different viewpoints. There are several good books about comparative religion geared toward children too.

What do you Believe is a really good overview of the worlds major religions for kids and What is God is excellent at explaining that some people believe in god but leaves it up to the child to determine what they believe.