Seven Days - (Aldana Libros) by Linda Wolfsgruber (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

From the creator of A Dress for the Moon comes an extraordinary visual version of how God created the world and the animals and humans in it over the course of seven days.

This narrative of how the world was created was first told in the book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. Christians later included the same text in the Christian Old Testament. And later, with some variations, it was included in the Muslim Koran.

The followers of these religions are sometimes called The People of the Book.

Linda Wolfsgruber includes images from what we now know were the early animals and plants that existed on our planet and which have evolved over time. The text in this book is derived from the Book of Genesis, a new translation of the Hebrew Bible known as the Transparent English Bible by James D. Tabor.

As Rabbi Edward Elkin tells us in his introduction to this book, "This account is one of joy and affirmation of the marvelous world in which we are lucky enough to live today."

An Aldana Libros Book, Greystone Kids

About the Author

Linda Wolfsgruber is a Hans Christian Andersen honor illustrator who lives in Vienna, Austria. She is a world-renowned artist who has won many awards, including the Austrian Art Award (2016), the Children's and Juvenile Book Award for Illustration, and the Golden Apple of the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava. She has illustrated many books including, Brunhilda and the Ring, The Camel in the Sun, Innana, and A Daisy is a Daisy is a Daisy. She is the illustrator of On the Small Hill Where the Girls Take Off Their Shoes and A Dress for the Moon, also published by Aldana Libros.

Rabbi Edward Elkin is the spiritual leader of the First Narayever Congregation in downtown Toronto. Rabbi Elkin grew up in Long Island, New York and received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1984. He was ordained as a rabbi by Hebrew Union College in 1990. After serving for six years as a rabbi and teacher in Montreal, Rabbi Elkin took up the post of Executive Director of North Carolina Hillel in Chapel Hill before moving with his wife Linda, and daughters Malka and Tali, to Toronto in the year 2000. His book, Putting Worlds into Words: Selected Writings from Twenty-Five Years at the First Narayever Congregation, was published in 2026.