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By Caldecott winner Ed Young, a radiant and powerful picture book interpretation of the story of creation from the Book of Genesis. In the beginning God created heaven and earth...." The story of creation is one of the most powerful, and beautiful, in the Bible. Representative of a point of genesis, a moment in time when earth was pure and untouched and entrusted to humankind, the Book of Genesis speaks of the mystery of the earth's creation and the miracle of our existence. Caldecott winner Ed Young's powerful visual interpretation enhances that sense of mystery and wonder as he draws light, and life, from dark, in perfect concordance with the text. And with an accompanying list of many of the world's creatures, both living and extinct, included on the endpapers, Genesis also serves as a gentle reminder that the earth is ours to protect.