Half a Moon and One Whole Star

Half a Moon and One Whole Star
Author Crescent Dragonwagon
Illustrator Jerry Pinkney
Country USA
Language English
Genre Children's literature, Poetry, picture book
Published 1986 (Macmillan)
Media type Print (hardback)
Pages 32 (unpaginated)
ISBN 9780027331202
OCLC 12216017

Half a Moon and One Whole Star is a 1986 book by Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrator Jerry Pinkney about a girl, Susan, who falls asleep in her bed, while the world continues outside.

Reception

Publishers Weekly in a review of Half a Moon and One Whole Star, wrote " Half A Moon and One Whole Star is an exceptional children's book: a work of art, both literary and visual."[1] and School Library Journal called it "a soft symphony of sleep in which participants are both real and imagined."[2]

Kirkus Reviews wrote "The cadence and the sensual images of the text, coupled with the artist's direct, yet subtly disjointed pictures in vivid watery colors, combine for a harmonious nighttime symphony of sound and color."[3]

Half a Moon received the 1987 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Half a Moon and One Whole Star". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. April 1, 1986. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Half a moon and one whole star". Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Half a Moon and One Whole Star". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Coretta Scott King Book Awards - All Recipients, 1970-Present". ala.org. American Library Association. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
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