| Half a Moon and One Whole Star | |
| Author: | Crescent Dragonwagon |
| Illustrator: | Jerry Pinkney |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Children's literature, Poetry, picture book |
| Published: | 1986 (Macmillan) |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
| Pages: | 32 (unpaginated) |
| Isbn: | 9780027331202 |
| Oclc: | 12216017 |
Half a Moon and One Whole Star is a 1986 book by Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrator Jerry Pinkney about a girl, Susan, who falls asleep in her bed, while the world continues outside.
Publishers Weekly in a review of Half a Moon and One Whole Star, wrote " Half A Moon and One Whole Star is an exceptional children's book: a work of art, both literary and visual."[1] and School Library Journal called it "a soft symphony of sleep in which participants are both real and imagined."[2]
Kirkus Reviews wrote "The cadence and the sensual images of the text, coupled with the artist's direct, yet subtly disjointed pictures in vivid watery colors, combine for a harmonious nighttime symphony of sound and color."[3]
Half a Moon received the 1987 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.[4]