A review by roseleaf24
A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin

5.0

After reading most of the Caldecott Award and Honor books, I still have a hard time telling what makes a picture book worthy. Not worth this book. Wow. The story is both everyday, ordinary life and mythic. The illustrations are stunning. I love the black and yellow contrast, which shows so much of the night sky. The facial expressions of this mother and daughter are perfect and so detailed. The way crumbs on Little Star's face become a trail of stars, and the little girl nibbling away night after night creates the passes if the moon, ties everything together so beautifully. I loved this book.