Lush, almost abstract, dark illustrations, text is "adapted from the King James Version." The author's note on the verso says in part, "To me Genesis represents the very beginning of all possibilities---the energy that is the seed of life. . . . I have tried to capture this spirit of fluidity . . . . finally there is man." So, ah ha!, the final picture for the sixth day contains outlines of a man and a woman and not just a tree with some weird black and blue stuff around it.
Mr. Young also notes that "The endpapers are composed of the names of hundreds of endangered and extinct animals, with those that are extinct highlighted; for I also see in Genesis a gentle reminder that the earth is ours to protect."

An artistic interpretation of the first seven days of creation as recorded in the first chapter of the book of Genesis ( )