Half a Moon and One Whole Star - Hardcover

Crescent Dragonwagon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0370310810 ISBN 13: 9780370310817

Publisher: Bodley Head Children's Books, 1987

Synopsis

Up above the earth so far
Hang half a moon and one whole star
Hang one whole star and half a moon;
Nighttime will be coming soon.
And while a young girl sleeps, nighttime deepens all around her -- in the woods and garden, on the ocean, in the city, and on the porch, where her parents sit.
Crescent Dragonwagon's soothing, evocative poem is brought to life by the lush artwork of Jerry Pinkney in this bedtime treasure.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 2 As nighttime deepens, Susan, a young black girl, enters sleeptime with familiar sounds of neighbors and the comforting sounds of animals in the world outside her bedroom window. Her sleep-dream experience on a summer evening is a conversational interplay of her youthful imagination with family, neighbors, animals and nature's musical background. What results is a soft symphony of sleep in which participants are both real and imagined. The rhyming text is enhanced by watercolor illustrations which fill some pages and dominate others. Bright foregrounds are balanced by darker backgrounds of starry night skies to reinforce awareness of the time for sleep and dreams. Ridiculous fun is made of the baker who is shown getting into bed with rolling pin, baked bread piled high and himself white with flour in his tall baker's hat. Again, as in Katie in the Morning (Harper, 1983), Dragonwagon allows a young child to explore a special time of day in a manner which proves to be pleasant and appealing. Helen E. Williams, Univ . of Maryland, College Park
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

PW called this evocative nighttime poem--winner of the Coretta Scott King Award--"an exceptional children's book: a work of art, both literary and visual." Ages 5-8.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bodley Head Children's Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0370310810
• ISBN 13: 9780370310817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: J. Pinkney