The 2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner
In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner
Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor winner Ekua Holmes celebrate the
birth of every child.
Before 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.