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  • In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World

Author
Virginia Hamilton
Illustrator
Barry Moser
Publication Date
September 15, 1991
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction /  6th − 8th
Language
English
In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
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Description
A thought-provoking collection of 25 stories that reflect the wonder and glory of the origins of the world and humankind. "A must for mythology shelves".--Booklist. Full color. (All Ages)
Publication date
September 15, 1991
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780152387426
Lexile Measure
700
Publisher
Clarion Books
BISAC categories
YAN047000 - Young Adult Nonfiction | Religion | General
YAN052030 - Young Adult Nonfiction | Folklore & Mythology
Library of Congress categories
Folklore
Creation
Mythology

Publishers Weekly

According to PW, "Moser's watercolors gleam like jewels amid the setting of the text. His people and creatures gaze out at readers, as if to challenge their imaginations to comprehend the chaos before creation." Ages 12-up. (Aug.)
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton, the first Black to win a Newbery Medal and the first children's book author to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant, won the Coretta Scott King Award for The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales. She died in 2002 at the age of 66.

Leo and Diane Dillon, recepients of two Caldecott Medals, have illustrated five books by Virginia Hamilton, including the original black-and-white illustrations in The People Could Fly collection, Many Thousand Gone, and Her Stories. Leo and Diane Dillon live in Brooklyn, NY.
Newbery Medal
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Honor Book 1989 - 1989
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