The Book of Creation - Hardcover

Andrew Clements; Georges Lemoine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088708141X ISBN 13: 9780887081415

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1991

Synopsis

Presents an illustrated version of the Creation story as it may have been told by a father to his son in the land of Canaan 2500 years ago.

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Language Notes:

Text: English
Original Language: French

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-6-- In the desert of the Holy Land, 2500 years ago, a father begins to tell his preadolescent son "what happened on the first morning of the world." His account focuses on the content and the context of creation, and on its timeless significance, rather than echoing the words of the Bible. Certain themes--like human stewardship of the earth--speak especially to us, but seem also to belong to a subsistence culture of desert nomads. Lemoine's watercolors--pure, linear, minimal, but with touches of expressionistic color--also combine the "primitive" and the contemporary. The text depends on Genesis A, omitting the B version's Eden, serpent, sin, and expulsion. Its sole borrowing from B is the creation of woman from man's rib instead of her co-creation, from clay, with man, and some readers may not feel that B's version "means that woman is the equal of man." The author has gracefully incorporated some ideas from midrashic commentaries, and the expanded story is fresh and at times poetic. It is also rather long, with a sophisticated vocabulary and concepts. The picture book format, even with Lemoine's stark and beautiful images, may make the audience for this book problematic.
- Patricia Dooley, University of Washington Library School, Seattle
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 088708141X
• ISBN 13: 9780887081415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Pierre-Marie Beaude