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The Tiny Star is a 2019 children's picture book by Mem Fox and illustrated by Freya Blackwood. It is about a star falling to Earth, turning into a baby, living a loving fulfilling life, dying, than returning to the heavens as a star.
Development
According to Fox, it took her five years to write.
Publication history
2021, US, Alfred A. Knopf ISBN 9780593304013
2019, Australia, Puffin Books ISBN 9780670078127
Reception
A reviewer for the Reading Time wrote "The Tiny Star is a valuable, uplifting and poignant story for the young to make sense of, and find comfort in, heartbreaking loss", and recommended it as a best book of the year. Publishers Weekly called it a "meditation".
The Tiny Star has also been reviewed by Kirkus Reviews, Books+Publishing, and StoryLinks.
Awards
2020 Booksellers' Choice Children's book of the year shortlist
2020 Australian Book Industry Awards Children's Picture Book of the Year shortlist
2020 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Three to Five Years shortlist
2020 Australian Indie Book Awards Children's shortlist
References
External links
Library holdings of The Tiny Star
Interview with Fox and Blackwood about the book
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