Thursday, May 1, 2008

My Friend, the Starfinder

My Friend the Starfinder by George Ella Lyon, Illustrated by Stephen Gammell
A story told in evocative free verse and graced with exuberant watercolors. A girl begins her narration when she was "no bigger than you are." She describes an old man who sits "in an old chair/on an old green porch" and tells tales of the time he found a falling star, and when he went for a walk and wound up at the end of the rainbow. The child feels certain that the outlandish stories must all be true. This is a picture book.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

...The scenes that depict the recounting of the old man's stories are particularly powerful...use this...to spark the imaginations of young writers, or simply share it as a tribute to storytellers everywhere...