A Big Mooncake for Little Star

One sign of how much Lin's new picture book feels like a timeless classic is how surprising it is to turn to the book's last pages and learn that the fable she tells—of a girl whose nighttime nibbles of a big cake create the slowly waning moon—is one of her own invention. It's such a beautiful and simple tale I was sure she had borrowed it from traditional legends. Add her subtly evocative illustrations—how I love Little Star's starry pajamas!—and you have one of my favorite picture books of the year, easily. (Ages 0 to 5)