The central character, Big Momma, is a common mortal that creates a world in six days and rests on the 7th day. ( )

One of my favorite picture books of all time, and I am PICKY about picture books! This is a creation myth beautifully told with gorgeous illustrations. I loved this book even before I had my daughter, and after reading it to her I realized that she tended to lose interest in the earlier illustrations that are very monochromatic. But after that, she was enthralled! ( )

I LOVED this book! It had great pictures to illustrate the story also! It is basically the Creation story told with a "Big Momma" who makes the world. It seemed to make more sense to my children that a woman would have made the world and they loved that this book lends itself to you taking an intonation with it. The wording is just perfect to take kind of a southern twang to it. If you're looking for a book to illustrate to kids that there are many different versions of Creation, this is a great book to start with. ( )

Root’s creation story combines scientific elements such as evolution, and big bang theory with the concept of a superior entity. In her down south, African American tone, Root describes how Big Momma (perhaps Mother Earth), baby on her hip swims out of the water, creates light, dark, sky, creatures and “folks to keep me company.” She lines the folks up and tells them “this is a real nice world we got here, and you all better take some good care of it” and goes off to rest, looking down every now and again “Big Momma looks down and says, Better straighten up down there.” The large, soft blue type is inviting and Oxenbury covers the right page fully with light infused, touchable drawings (the big bang of creatures covers both and its orange-tinged, yellow center explodes with energy nearly spitting flesh-colored creatures off the page. Beautiful ( )