by Deborah Bodin Cohen
Illustrated by Melanie Hall
Kar-Ben Publishing
Hardback
 
"Hall's mixed-media compositions swirl with color and energy." Publishers Weekly
This Jewish children's book is a poetic adaption of the creation story. God is likened to a potter, a painter and a musician. . . who molds desert canyons and riverbeds, paints the leopard's spots and the zebra's strips and creates the sounds of lions roaring and thunder cracking.  When creation is finished on the seventh day, God calls all creatures to rest - and to celebrate.
 
Recognition
Sydney Taylor Notable Book
Scholastic Book Fair Selection 
PJ Library Selection by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation