How The Stars Came To Be (Hardback)

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Bring out all the adjectives and accolades for the visually-stunning illustrations in this picture book.

So, the sun sends stars scattering them to the earth, and the girl's job is to place them deliberately in the sky to light up the world. The details in the patterns making up the larger pictures, the colors shining on the dark pages, the way this all enhances the story itself.I don't normally count Children's books in my totals for the year, but I am this time because the illustrations are so incredibly breathtaking.

It was such a pleasure to meet you both, and I really appreciated how smoothly and professionally you ran everything. However, a monkey steals her bag of glittering pieces at one point, and when the two of them fight over the bag, the rest of the shards spill into the sky, ruining her patterns but lighting the way for her father. When I encountered Poonam Mistry's art for the first time in You're Snug with Me, I knew I had found a new favorite illustrator and quickly tracked down all her books in my library district. After making many pictures of animals from the bag of stars she collected, a monkey steals the bag and spills them all over the sky. Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do.

When the sun finds her sobbing one night, he takes one of his rays and smashes it onto the ground, creating the stars and giving the girl the task of putting them into the dark night sky. Poonam’s work is drawn by hand with black ink before she uses computer software to add colour and adjust the composition of her illustrations. But when the moon disappeared for a few nights each month, she worried about her father and how he would find his way home from the sea in the deep darkness. As such, links could be made with the PSHE curriculum for introducing tolerance and respect for one another’s belief systems.

Definitely recommend for any other fans of really pretty picture books, and/or mythology and world tales. Her style incorporates her love of nature and her Indian roots, exploring the relationships between pattern, shapes and colour Being brought up surrounded by Indian fabrics, paintings and ornaments have heavily influenced her work. Poonam Mistry is a freelance illustrator living in Leicester who graduated in 2010 with a degree in graphic design and illustration from the University of Hertfordshire.This story has some of the most beautiful artwork, and gives children a great way to think about how the stars got to be in the places they are in, and why they make the constellations they do. It seems that we can step upon each magical mosaic piece of the sky beneath which the fisherman’s daughter waits and creates. In the upper grades of third through fifth, this would be more suitable as a read aloud but it could also be used for independent reading. Mistry incorporates her Indian roots into her art, and draws from Indian folklore to create this tale. The fisherman’s daughter loved to dance in the sunlight, and bathe in the glow of the moon, but when the moon would disappear for a few nights each month, she would worry about her father and how he would find his way home from sea in the deep darkness.