Concordia Publishing House is promoting this book, encouraging all LCMS churches to promote the book to their congregations. Personally, I'm reluctant to even include it in our congregation library.

Note that the book is beautiful, unquestionably. The paintings used are wonderful and would make a great screensaver. Maier's is approachable and easy to understand. He does a great job of teaching abstract concepts to children.

Maier also makes a point of tying in Genesis 3:15 with Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, a fitting ending for the book. The final illustration reminds me of the final scene in The Passion of the Christ. 

But that's where the accolades stop.

When I first picked up the book, I optimistically flipped through first and looked at the pictures.  My optimism crashed to the floor and shattered as soon as I got to Day 6. We see a beautiful painting of the animals that God created, and while there's nothing wrong with what's in the image, what's missing is a glaring omission.

Since God made all land-dwelling animals on the sixth day, that would also include dinosaurs, and since Paul Maier is presumably a Creationist if he's writing a book on Creation for CPH, I assume he believes that God made dinosaurs on that day, yet neither he, Professor Barrett, nor any of the editorial staff involved in the publication of this text included a single dinosaur in any of the illustrations in this book.

Then, you start reading. In the opening, Maier declines to even estimate the date of the Creation. Instead, his "in eternity" dodge sounds almost Platonic, regardless of the detailed dates given in Genesis and elsewhere in Scripture. He also fails to mention anything about dinosaurs anywhere in the text, or, for that matter, to state anything that a theistic evolutionist would disagree with. He even goes so far as to equate the Big Bang with the creation of light and confuses the order of creation, mentioning the creation of the heavenly bodies before the creation of dry land and plants without giving a definite order.

Overall, this book could have been excellent, but it falls short. Maier should have published this book with Augsburg Fortress, not CPH. I recommend the books produced by Answers in Genesis for a more accurate retelling of the Creation.