Like Hollywood movies that present God as a human being with curiosities and foibles much like our own, Rylant's imaginative series of poems about God living on earth are filled with more contemporary ...

In a companion to Creation and Nativity, Rylant offers a stirring picture book rendering of Ecclesiastes. Each portrait-oriented spread includes a single phrase from the paean, presented with spare, ...

Cynthia Rylant, an Oregon-based award-winning children's author of more than 100 books, is being honored again, for her most recent beginning-reader book. "Mr. Putter and Tabby Turn the Page," the ...