How The Stars Came To Be (Hardback)

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It’s a fantastic independent book seller that will actually be responsive and select appropriate books for you. With many a children's book the text is placed almost randomly on the page ruining the power of the illustrations. Another idea to use in the classroom related to this text would be to identify the main idea and use supporting details to explain it. Poonam Mistry has invented her own ‘pourquoi’ or origin tale about how the stars came to be, lighting the night sky, and how they are arranged, some formed into the pictures seen in constellations, some distributed more randomly. When she chases after him he throws the stars to the sky placing them imperfectly unlike her placements.

It tells her to place each shard into the night sky, where it will twinkle and glow, so that the fisherman will always have light to guide him home safely. I'm an absolute sucker for traditional tales from around the world, and to see new tales that carry those same feelings so beautifully is rare.This would be a useful story for increasing the diversity of traditional tales and literature in the classroom. 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. This book should be introduced for this genre because it is a perfect example of folklore with images that seem to fit the way that the story is told, making it easier to understand. 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. Girl’ persists through adversity and difficult situations to complete the tasks she has set herself, even though she knows this is going to take an extremely long time.

This book could be used in the classroom for a unit about constellations because of the way that the fisherman's daughter made animals in the sky. That the illustrations are paramount is evident in the choices of font colors, which tend to be darkish shades, and at times can be a trifle difficult to read.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. If you love the cover art, don't hesitate to check out this book -- or anything illustrated by this mega-talented artist! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.