The Creation

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 show more 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. show less

The Creation is a free verse poetry book that uses an older African American, maybe a father or a grandpa, to retell how God everything from the Earth to the birds in the sky to the fish in the ocean. His description of everything is so beautiful, see if you can keep from being captivated.

The way Mr. Johnson tells this story is a awesome way to explain to kids just how big and powerful God is. I could really imagine the illustration becoming reality. This is a very southern and peaceful book.

I know now days teachers must becareful not to push religion on students, but you could definitely use this book to show children how captivating free verse poetry is, and to encourage them to write a free verse to tell a story.

A wonderful poetic rendition of the Genesis creation story in this beautifully illustrated picture book.

This book tells the story of the creation of the world with a southern black country style. The illustrations gorgeously capture the details of the seven days of creation. This is great to introduce how stories get passed down from generation to generation.

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.

An older African American man tells the story of the Creation of the world. Using language from the Bible in a poetic form, he explains to young children the days of creation. After each day, there is an accompanying beautiful picture to capture the good work that God has done. This would be a nice book to use with young children as they learn the book of Genesis.

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.