A little star is floating out in deep space lonely for company when a comet happens by. That is the opening premise of Lee Juck’s Comet & Star: A Story of Cosmic Friendship.
The star calls out to the comet with an invitation of friendship. In the telling and in Lee Jinhee’s illustrations, the star and the comet are sentient and full of personality. The little star’s world is full of fruit and eyeglasses and books and hats and pencils and envelopes.
This picture book opens up opportunities for a child’s thinking of the broader world empathetically, even for remote inanimate spatial bodies in the heavens.
In a large universe, connections between solar bodies can be warming.
Comet & Star: A Story of Cosmic Friendship was translated from the Korean by Stine An.
Shalin Hai-Jew has worked in higher education for many years. She has edited dozens of nonfiction educational books and authored a dozen with a number of publishers.
