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PICTURE BOOKS

Bauer, Marion Dane

The Stuff of Stars

40 pp. | Candlewick | September, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-7883-8 $17.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Ekua Holmes. From darkness, we experience the Big Bang, the birth of the universe, and the emergence of life on Earth. Holmes breathes life and depth into Bauer's ambitious poem with marbled paper and collage, in which representational shapes subtly emerge from the mottled background. By book's end, we see an adult and child together: "You, / and me / loving you. / All of us / the stuff of stars."

Reviewer: Lolly Robinson | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2019