How The Stars Came To Be (Hardback)

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I was at my last school for 4 years and we had ********* book fairs every term – and every term, I was disappointed by the narrow range of books. 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. The fisherman’s daughter loved to dance in the sunlight, and bathe in the glow of the moon, but when the moon would disappear for a few nights each month, she would worry about her father and how he would find his way home from sea in the deep darkness. Clearly, this explains why some stars form certain images while others seem to have been placed randomly in the sky.

As well as this, although not accurate, this story would be very helpful for discussing the variety of stories and explanations there are for the origins of the earth and other celestial bodies. The daughter of a fisherman worries about her father when he is out in his boat at night, so is thankful to the moon for lighting his way. Your words, like your reviews, bring books to life and give them a voice before the front cover is even turned. Neon lights will be delivered in 2-4 weeks, as they are made in small batches and shipped separately from other items. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.As such, links could be made with the PSHE curriculum for introducing tolerance and respect for one another’s belief systems. Poonam’s upbringing and childhood have heavily influenced her work, in particular being surrounded by Indian fabrics, Kalamkari textiles, Madhubani paintings and hand painted ornaments.

When the sun finds her sobbing one night, he takes one of his rays and smashes it onto the ground, creating the stars and giving the girl the task of putting them into the dark night sky. This beautifully illustrated story gives us a new folk tale, and a new way to look up at the night sky. Bring out all the adjectives and accolades for the visually-stunning illustrations in this picture book. This beautifully illustrated paperback picture book gives us a new folk tale, and a new way to look up at the night sky.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. Poonam Mistry is a freelance illustrator living in Leicester who graduated in 2010 with a degree in graphic design and illustration from the University of Hertfordshire. 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. I would liked some background on whether it was inspired by specific folktales or if it was just written like an origin story folktale. However, on the few nights each month when the moon makes its journey to the other side of the world, her father is surrounded by total darkness.

Yourself and Bob are much cherished in our booky world and I personally really appreciate everything that you do. In this story, the sun sends down a ray of light that shatters, and the daughter is told to place them in the sky to provide light for her father.But when the moon disappeared for a few nights each month, she worried about her father and how he would find his way home from the sea in the deep darkness. Poonam’s work is drawn by hand with black ink before she uses computer software to add colour and adjust the composition of her illustrations. After making many pictures of animals from the bag of stars she collected, a monkey steals the bag and spills them all over the sky. 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 story would be a great mentor text for using pictures to tell a story, or to help our writing tell a story- especially for younger students. The Fisherman's Daughter loved to dance in the Sunlight, and bathe in the glow of the Moon, but when the moon would disappear for a few nights each month, she would worry about her father and how he would find his way home from sea in the deep darkness. I like how it mixes modern understanding of the world (the stars literally being tiny suns for example) with common tropes of traditional folklore, such as the mischievous monkey. How the Stars Came to Be is a beautifully illustrated new folk tale, showing us a new way to look up at the night sky.

She graduated in 2010 with a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from the University of Hertfordshire. However, a monkey steals her bag of glittering pieces at one point, and when the two of them fight over the bag, the rest of the shards spill into the sky, ruining her patterns but lighting the way for her father.