In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World
In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World is a 1988 collection of 25 creation stories from cultures around the world written by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Barry Moser. It was well-received, earning a Newbery Honor in 1989, Hamilton's second after Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush in 1983, an American Institute of Graphic Arts design award, a Children's Book Council notable book recognition, and a National Science Teaching Association outstanding book recognition.
Included stories
The culture, mythology, or source is listed in parentheses- The Pea-Pod Man
- Finding Night
- An Endless Sea of Mud
- Bursting from the Hen's Egg
- Traveling to Form the World
- First Man Becomes the Devil
- Turtle Dives to the Bottom of the Sea
- Moon and Sun
- Bandicoots Come from His Body
- Spider Ananse Finds Something
- The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
- Man Copies God
- The Frost Giant
- Owner of the Sky
- Marduk, God of Gods
- Four Creations to Make Man
- The Angry Gods
- Sun, Life, Wind, and Death
- The Sun-God and the Dragon
- Separation of Earth and Sky
- First Man, First Woman
- The Coming of All Things
- The God Brings Fire to Man
- Pandora
- ''In the Beginning''