This is an English book. It tells you about nouns and verbs, adjectives and adverbs, commas and apostrophes. It tells you how to write well and to communicate with others. But that is not all. This book also tells you about one of America's leading industries, manufacturing. As you look around, most of what you see has been manufactured, or made. This book, your shoes, the cereal you ate for breakfast, the car or bus that you rode in to school, the calculator on the teacher's desk (and the desk itself), your ruler, the airplane that's flying overhead right now -- all of those things are produced by the manufacturing industry. This book also tells you about a Person who not only makes things from raw materials but who can create things from nothing. Of course, that Person is God, the One who created heaven and earth and then made man in His own image. Of all that you learn from this book, what you learn about God is most important. - Introducing the theme.