Half a Moon and One Whole Star

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.

Half a Moon and One Whole Star
AuthorCrescent Dragonwagon
IllustratorJerry Pinkney
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's literature, Poetry, picture book
Published1986 (Macmillan)
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages32 (unpaginated)
ISBN9780027331202
OCLC12216017

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]

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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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