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| Author | Crescent Dragonwagon |
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| Illustrator | Jerry Pinkney |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature, Poetry, picture book |
| Published | 1986 (Macmillan) |
| Publication place | USA |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 32 (unpaginated) |
| ISBN | 9780027331202 |
| OCLC | 12216017 |
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.
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]
