Sky All Around - Hardcover

James Cross Giblin is the author of more than 20 critically acclaimed books for young people. His most recent book for Clarion, The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler, received the Robert F. Sibert Award for Informational Books. Mr. Giblin lives in New York City.

PreSchool-K-- Another quiet family story from Hines, this one takes a little girl and her father out to watch the stars on a summer evening. Gradually the sky deepens in color and the crescent moon and the stars become clearer. After locating the Big Dipper, Scorpio, and the Northern Crown, father and child turn to finding and naming their own star pictures. Hines' soft naturalistic drawings in muted colors are unexceptional, as is her prose. Nevertheless, there is an audience for Hines' brand of gentle everyday life stories, and the book may be welcomed for its portrayal of the warm relationship between a father and his young daughter as they experience the beauty of the evening sky together. It is not intended to serve as an introductory guide to the constellations, and those who might be inspired to do their own sky watching should be aware of books such as Franklyn Branley's The Sky Is Full of Stars (Crowell, 1981) or H. A. Rey's Find the Constellations (Houghton, 1976). --Ann Stell, The Smithtown Library, N.Y.
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