num_pages: 32
description: From the Nun, a vast sleeping ocean of deep water surrounded on all sides by Chaos, rises the legendary Benu Bird, the ancestor of the phoenix and the bringer of light, and at its cry, time begins and the world comes into existence, in an ancient Egyptian story of creation.
language: English
title: Cry of the Benu Bird: An Egyptian Creation Story
titlecomplete: Cry of the Benu Bird: An Egyptian Creation Story
genres: Egypt, Picture Books
ratings_count: 19
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt