Secret Stars

The children's book, Secret Stars received several awards including 2000 Pura Belpre Honor Book award, ALA's 2000 Notable Children's Book list, a Joan Sugarman Honors Award for Text, and a 1998 Americas' Commended list. Unfortunately, it has been out of print for several years. This app gives new life to this beautiful children's story.

On a stormy Night of the Three Kings in New Mexico, Pepe and Sila worry that the kings won't find their way through the icy darkness. How will the children get their toys? Grandma wraps Pepe and Sila in her quilt, and they travel with her in a dream to discover that there are secret stars that light the way wherever they look. There is not much story, but the magic realism of words and acrylic pictures shows the mystery of the holiday, the warmth inside the small ranch house, and the shining stars that glitter in the icy world outside. And in the morning, of course, the gifts are there.

• "The text reads like a poem. Davolos's illustrations have a flavour of the Southwest."--School Library Journal.
• "A magnificent dream sequence."--Publisher's Weekly
• "A story to warm a chilly night." -- Children's Book Review Service