In the Beginning

Creation Stories from Around the World

by Virginia Hamilton

On Sale: 09/15/1991

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In the Beginning

Creation Stories from Around the World

by Virginia Hamilton

illustrated by Barry Moser

On Sale: 09/15/1991

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About the Book

A thought-provoking collection of twenty-five stories that reflect the wonder and glory of the origins of the world and humankind. With commentary by the author. “A must for mythology shelves.”--Booklist

Product Details

ISBN: 9780152387426
ISBN 10: 0152387420
Imprint: Clarion Books
On Sale: 09/15/1991
Pages: 176
List Price:26.99 CAD
BISAC1 : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
BISAC2 : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Reference
BISAC3 : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Activity Books
BISAC4 : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / History / General
BISAC5 : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Humor
BISAC6 : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / School & Education
BISAC7 : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Boys & Men
BISAC8 : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Social Science / Customs, Traditions, Anthropology
BISAC9 : YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Religion / General

Virginia Hamilton

Biography

Virginia Hamilton's books have won many awards and honors. One of these, the first book ever to win both the John Newbery Medal and the National Book Award, M.C. Higgins, the Great, was also the recipent of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Her Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush—a National Book Award Finalist, Newbery Honor Book, and Coiretta Scott King Award winner—is another towering classic of young adult literature. The Planet of Junior Brown was a Newbery Honor Book in 1971, and four of Virginia Hamilton's other books have been named Notable Children's books by the American Library Association.

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Barry Moser

Biography

Barry Moser is the prizewinning illustrator and designer of more than three hundred books for children and adults. He is widely celebrated for his dramatic wood engravings for the only twentieth-century edition of the entire King James Bible illustrated by a single artist. He lives in western Massachusetts.