{"product_id":"the-stuff-of-stars-9780763678838","title":"The Stuff of Stars","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the birth of every child.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG  Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while vivid illustrations by Ekua Holmes capture the void before the Big Bang and the ensuing life that burst across galaxies. A seamless blend of science and art, this picture book reveals the composition of our world and beyond -- and how we are all the stuff of stars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarion Dane Bauer \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning author of more than one hundred books for young people, including the Newbery Honor Book \u003ci\u003eOn My Honor.\u003c\/i\u003e Formerly on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, she now writes full-time. Marion Dane Bauer lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEkua Holmes\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eis the illustrator of two previous picture books: \u003ci\u003eVoice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement\u003c\/i\u003e by Carole Boston Weatherford, for which she won the John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award and a Caldecott Honor; and \u003ci\u003eOut of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets \u003c\/i\u003eby Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley, and Marjory Wentworth, for which she received the 2018 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. Ekua Holmes lives in Boston.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614228451602,"sku":"9780763678838","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1a272de3-54c6-4c7d-98cb-79796e94fec0.jpg?v=1732434298","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-stuff-of-stars-9780763678838","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}