My Friend, the Starfinder

Another wonderful picture book by George Ella Lyon is My Friend, the Starfinder.  George Ella is a poet, and her feeling for words makes this book a delight to read.  The illustrator is Stephen Gammell.  He's a Caldecott Medal winner, and the pictures in this book and in Come a Tide pull you right into each story.  I love studying them because they wrap George Ella's story in layers and layers of beauty and meaning.