In these remarkable creation tales, God appears as an artist who is sometimes surprised by his creatures. "Some things take an awful lot of work. But others – they just seem to turn up!" He puts enormous care into fashioning the birds, but simply pulls Newt out of the ground, while Mouse emerges unexpectedly from the dancing mountains. When he sets out to create a playmate for Woman, Gorilla is not a great success, but he scores a triumph with Horse. Sometimes he simply puts an animal together from "a few bits and pieces left over".

CONTENTS:
1. How Sparrow Saved the Birds
2. The Guardian
3. The Trunk
4. The Making of Parrot
5. The Invaders
6. The Snag
7. The Playmate
8. The Shawl of the Beauty of the World
9. Leftovers
10. The Dancers