Book jacket image for A Bed of Stars by Jessica Love

Candlewick

9781536212396

STARRED REVIEW

A Bed of Stars

A desert camping trip reassures a child about their place in an immense universe in this gentle, comforting picture book.

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Review of ‘A Bed of Stars’

Jessica Love (Julián Is a Mermaid) gently demonstrates the power of knowledge in A Bed of Stars, a picture book about a child whose father takes them camping in the desert.

Every night before bed, the child imagines “the whole universe stretching on endlessly.” This…

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