Faith and five year olds!

Kathleen gets me with her questions. While I think of myself as being relatively well versed in the world of things, when it comes to answering her question - I am often stumped silent!

Recently, Kathleen has had a lot of questions about God, faith and Jesus. I need some guidance!

Some recent conversations:

- "what does God look like? Is God a girl or a boy?"
Kathleen wanted to know about hair colour, skin colour. Can you see God? Is God like a ghost? She also challenged me on the interpretation whether God is male or female. I can't come up with reasonable explanations.

- "What is faith?"
How do you explain 'faith' to a child who doesn't know what beliefs mean? This question came up in the context of celebrating holidays. I mentioned that different faiths have different holidays, such as Christmas is a Christian holiday, or Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish holiday. I wasn't able to explain why Christianity and Judaism are different faiths because, well, I couldn't explain faith. I can explain the historical progression (in very simple terms) but couldn't get either of us beyond faith.

We don't practice any religion but I certainly want to raise my children very aware of the different faiths. I think it is important to have a basic level of knowledge to enhance the respect for different religions but also it is interesting to learn about the various faiths. However, as I found out, my knowledge is based on understanding the pillars of religion and faith - however, I am not sufficiently versed or creativity to convince a five year old of the meanings of some very basic but critical words.

Has anyone heard of a book of world religions for the young?