This collaboration between award-winning poet James Berry and honored artist Ashley Bryan is sure to make readers chuckle, smile, frown, gasp, and cheer. Berry draws on memories of his Caribbean childhood for sixty poems that capture the universal experiences of growing up. Like the nest of eggs that becomes, in the title poem, "a mighty nest full of stars," this book awakens us to the magic in our everyday world. Ashley Bryan's glorious black-and-white artwork is the perfect accompaniment. "Includes an introduction and index.
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