Primary; Poetry; This book tells the story of Creation through an African American story teller. This is shown in the illustrations as he tells the young children around him of Creation. It is a sweet story of God's Creation of the universe, planet, and all creation on it. This would be a great book for a read aloud or classroom library in a Christian school, but may be a controversial choice in a public one. ( )

This book is about an old man telling a group of children about the creation of the world found in Genesis. While this book is not entirely accurate when stating about the creation, it is still pretty factual. I enjoyed reading this book and seeing the cool illustrations found within it. This would be great for primary readers.

For beginning readers. This book is the creation story- an African American grandpa is telling his grandchildren the story of creation. The illustrations are beautiful and detailed. The story is true to what is written in Genesis. Good for christians who are also a part of African culture. ( )

This book tells the story of how god created the world and everything in it. A group of young children listen as an elderly African American man tells the story from his perspective. Although there is no verbal indication throughout the story that the man is speaking, the illustrations show the reader that the man is telling the story through his storytelling movements. Though the story is in the words, the illustrations do most of the storytelling. ( )

A beautiful story with even more beautiful illustrations. In this book we see a man telling a group of children the story of how the Earth was made. He tells the young kids about how God made everything. Mountains, day, night, stars, animals, humans and more. It was not the story that grabbed my attention, it was the illustrations. This book could have no words and I would of still enjoyed flipping through the book. Every other page was two full pages of beautiful paintings of mother nature. The paintings of nature are so detailed and textured. The technique that James E. Ransome used to paint these pictures looks like thick, fast strokes with a paint brush. Similar to an impressionist style. This method of painting gives the readers the illusion of three dimensional and textured pieces. I also like the small details that Ransome incorporated, like the detailed facial expressions of the children and teacher, even the animals in this story have realistic facial expressions. Although this is not a book I could read to students, because of religious references, it was well written and beautifully illustrated. ( )