Starry River of the Sky / Grace Lin / 288 pages

Starry River of the Sky is a companion book to Lin's book Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.  The author uses the same format of story intertwined with folklore.  This book is amazingly beautiful in format, luminous illustration and language.  Lin says in her author's note that as an Asian American child she spent most of her life resisting her parent's efforts to share her heritage. As an adult she traveled to the East to rediscover her roots and started creating her own myth-like stories based on those she heard as a child.  Lin states "And my journey to write this book was much like Rendi's-starting with confusion and doubt and ending with wonder, strength, and self-discovery."  Starry River of the Sky is a timeless book of universal truths that will endure and must be shared by reading aloud, family sharing and book discussion.  Highly recommended.