All the Stars in the Sky

(Hardback)

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Last Stop on Market Street meets We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga in this sweet, bighearted picture book about a young boy who learns the Cherokee lesson of gadugihow working together and helping each other makes the whole community stronger.

When eager Clay asks his elisi (grandmother) for help to be named star of the week at school, hes surprised by her answer: No one person is more important than his family and his community. But is Clay still important at all

This contemplative exploration of community, individualism, and responsibilityaccentuated with traditional beadwork in the artis a moving invitation to consider an indigenous perspective of ones place in the world and how we all light up our sky, together.

Author Bio

Art Coulsonis a writer of Cherokee, English, and Dutch descent and comes from a family of storytellers in all three traditions. A Navy brat, Art traveled the world, attending fourteen schools on three continents before graduating high school. Art served as the first executive director of the Wilma Mankiller Foundation in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma after an award-winning twenty-five-year career in journalism. A 2023 McKnight Fellow in Childrens Literature, Art is the author of twenty books, graphic novels, and plays, including Chasing Bigfoot,Bank Street Best Book of 2020 The Reluctant Storyteller, All the Stars in the Sky, andLook, Grandma! Ni, Elisi!, which wasnamed a best STEM childrens book by the National Science Teaching Association. Find out more at ArtCoulson.com.

Winona Nelsonis a fine artist and illustrator of comics and childrens books. Shes the illustrator ofIf You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving by Chris Newell, which was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and All the Stars in the Sky by Art Coulson. Her fine art, which often focuses on the stories and history of her tribe, the Ojibwe of Minnesota, as well as on gender and diversity, has been featured in galleries across the country. She lives in Pennsylvania with her artist beau Anthony and their gentleman cats, Diego and Tod.