Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, written and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney (Brown & Company)

Pinkney, who won a Caldecott Medal in 2010 for The Lion and the Mouse, brings a similar sumptuous, color-saturated aesthetic to this re-imagining of the familiar bedtime lullaby, here expanded by a few verses from its most well-known version.

A pleasingly expressive chipmunk why is this rodent's particular cuteness overlooked in children's books? stars in a free-form journey from woodland to dreamland, traveling at one point in a flying boat.

His trajectory is confusing, but children are likely to view it as just another one of night's mysteries.

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