Saturday Morning Storytime: Jen Corace at The Silver Unicorn

We are so fortunate to welcome Jen Corace, illustrator of the beautiful new book Small World, to our store for Saturday Morning Storytime! This book has received a starred review from the School Library Journal, and has been praised for its lyrical prose and geometric ink and pencil illustrations. While this book is STEM-themed and girl-powered, it goes beyond the buzz words to touch the heart and warm the soul.

When Nanda is born, the whole of her world is the circle of her mother’s arms. But as she grows, the world grows too. It expands outward—from her family, to her friends, to the city, to the countryside. And as it expands, so does Nanda’s wonder in the underlying shapes and structures patterning it: cogs and wheels, fractals in snowflakes. Eventually, Nanda’s studies lead her to become an astronaut and see the small, round shape of Earth far away. A geometric meditation on wonder, Small World is a modern classic that expresses our big and small place in the vast universe.

We look forward to hosting Jen and hope you’ll join us for this special storytime! It’ll be the perfect story for any big-dreamer in your family!