Saturday in paradise

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The picture book Saturday in Paradise by Helme Heine is a child-friendly representation of human creation . First published in 1985.

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God, a man with a white beard and a yellow hat, created the world in five days: light, heaven, earth and sea, plants, stars and animals. On Saturday it was the turn of the people who were supposed to resemble him and whose body shape resulted from the tasks that God intended for them: feet, for example, to be steadfast and the head to think. Then God gave people paradise.

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While the first five days are symbolized by small sketches, the first part of the book deals with the complicated work involved in creating man and shows him in the field and in his studio. In the second part you can see Adam and Eve in paradise, who create the vision of a harmonious coexistence with the environment and the animals in imaginative pictures. Humans do not appear as rulers, but see themselves as equals in this world.

Children's books on the same subject

Other children's books , in which the evolution are treated, are the beginning of Wolf Erlbruch and Bert Moyenart , William Steig's yellow and pink as well as the creation of Friedrich Karl Waechter .