The creation story told with hn artist decides to make what he sees in his head. Goes through 6 days of creation. Makes humans who are "his children" and they call him God.
Themes -- art, creation
The pictures in this book would be a good example of what watercolors can do. I would read this book and then have students create their own world with original vegetation and animals. ( )

I guess if I were Christian I'd probably like this, as it is gracefully written and the pictures are lovely. But (for example) Holstein cows were not created on the 5th day, even metaphorically, and not everyone who is spiritual, or even who believes in God, believes in one white male Creator. ( )

The story, marvelously told beholds the concept of God as an artist who dreams of the stars and then the heavens become a reality, who dreams of the heavens that twinkled and shone and then stars appear, who made an earth and the artist held it in his hand and borrowed light and behold, the dynamic shape took form.

And, one by one, the earth is filled with marvel, of dry earth that is colorful and then blue water that the artist can float upon, and then there was green and trees and forests.

Waking from his dream like trance, the artist imagines every living thing and whales now inhabit the ocean, birds live in the trees and animals, large and small came forth.

Needing someone to see the beauty, the artist created humankind.

Highly creative and beautifully written and illustrated, this is a joy to behold.

This was a clever and unexpected telling of the creation story. ( )

Interesting story about being an artist and alluding to God as the ultimate creator. Probably not suited to public school classrooms because of the theological reference. Beautiful weaving of story and images.