FICTION

One Sky

by Aaron Becker (text) & illus. by Aaron Becker
Candlewick Studio. Sept. 2022. 16p. Board $17.99. ISBN 9781536225365.
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PreS-K–Becker’s die-cut board books encourage readers to explore the way the pages interact with the light, and in his latest, the text feels more ethereal, very nearly abstract: “The sky grows clear and bright. We wonder at its wildness. We drink its amber beams. With peace we welcome dusk.” Young readers will either have whiplash at the speed at which the day passes or this will appeal to their poetic impulses. With the illustrations, the sky is rendered in tissue-paper bleeds, creating stained-glass windows of clouds, sunshine, and stars.
VERDICT Where Becker’s books are popular, or where experimental picture books do well, this selection will fit right in.
Reviewed by Chance Lee Joyner , Oct 28, 2022

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