Bibliography of Creation Stories

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Anderson, David A. (Sankofa). The Origins of Life on Earth: an African Creation Myth; illustrated by Kathleen Atkins Wilson. Sights Productions, 1991.

Bible. Genesis; illustrated by Ed Young. Geringer/Harper Collins, 1997.

Bierhorst, John. The People with Five Fingers: a Native Californian Creation Tale; illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker. Marshall Cavendish, 2000.

Davol, Marguerite W. Batwings and the Curtain of Night; illustrated by Mary Grandpre. Kroupa/Orchard, 1997.

Gakuo, Kariuki. Nymba ya Mumbi: the Gikuyu Creation Myth; illustrated by Mwaura Ndekere. Jacaranda Designs, 1992.

Gerson, Mary-Joan. People of Corn: a Mayan Story; illustrated by Carla Golembe. Little, Brown and Company, 1995.

Goble, Paul. Remaking the Earth: A Creation Story from the Great Plains of North America. Orchard, 1996.

Greenfield, Karen. Sister Yessa's Story; illustrated by Claire Ewart. Laura Geringer, 1992.

Greger, C. Shana. Cry of the Benu Bird: an Egyptian Creation Story. Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Hamilton, Virginia. In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World; illustrated by Barry Moser. HBJ, 1988.

Hickman, Martha Whitmore. And God Created Squash: How the World Began; illustrated by Giuliano Ferri. Albert Whitman and Company, 1993.

Jaffe, Nina. The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth from Puerto Rico; illustrated by Enrique O. Sanchez. Simon, 1996.

Joyce, Susan. Naro, the Ancient Spider; illustrated by D.C. DuBosque. Peel Productions, 1989.

Keens-Douglas, Richardo. Mama God, Papa God: a Caribbean Tale; illustrated by Stefan Czernecki. Crocodile Books, 1999.

Lester, Julius. What a Truly Cool World!; illustrated by Joe Cepeda. Scholastic, 1999.

Lewis, Richard. All of You was Singing; illustrated by Ed Young. Atheneum, 1991.

Macdonald, Amy. The Spider who Created the World; illustrated by G. Brian Karas. Kroupa/Orchard, 1996.

Maddern, Eric. The Fire Children: A West African Creation Tale; illustrated by Frane Lessac. Dial, 1993.

Manitonquat (Medicine Story). The Children of the Morning Light: Wampanoag Tales; illustrated by Mary F. Arquette. Macmillan, 1994.

Matthews, Andrew. Marduk the Mighty and Other Stories of Creation; illustrated by Sheila Moxley. Millbrook, 1997.

Pia Toya: A Goshute Indian Legend; retold and illustrated by the children and teachers of Ibapah Elementary. University of Utah Press, 2000.

Rohmer, Harriet and Mary Anchondo. How We Came to the Fifth World/Como Vinimos al Quinto Mundo; illustrated by Graciela Carillo. Children's Book Press, 1988.

Rosen, Michael J. The Dog who Walked with God; illustrated by Stan Fellows. Candlewick, 1998.

Rylant, Cynthia. The Dreamer; illustrated by Barry Moser. Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1993.

Sherman, Josepha. Told Tales: Nine Folktales from Around the World; illustrated by Jo-Ellen Bosson. Silver Moon Press, 1995.

Steig, William. Yellow and Pink. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984.

Taylor, C.J. Bones in the Basket: Native Stories of the Origin of People. Tundra Books, 1994.

Wood, Douglas. Making the World; illustrated by Yoshi and Hibiki Miyazaki. Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Zhang, Song Nan. Five Heavenly Emperors: Chinese Myths of Creation. Tundra Books, 1994.

Ziefert, Harriet. First He Made the Sun; illustrated by Todd McKie. GP Putnam's Sons, 2000.

 

 

   
   

 

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Literature and Resources for Children
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Fall 2002