Ocean of Stars Book Launch and Story Time with Rebecca Rebouché

Join us beneath the oaks of Prytania Street for a children's story time full of art and wonder. Rebecca will read Ocean of Stars aloud, share the process behind the book's paintings, answer questions from young readers and grown-ups alike, and lead a hands-on activity. Every child in attendance will receive a special Ocean of Stars coloring sheet to take home.

"Come help me launch my first children's book in my hometown with community and revelry." Rebecca Rebouché

ABOUT THE BOOK

From Azita Ardakani and acclaimed artist Rebecca Rebouché comes a timeless story about how everything comes to be, and how, in the making of the world, we are made by both stardust and one another.

Before there was the world we know, there was only silence and shimmer: a great dark ocean of matter and possibility. Ocean of Stars follows the unfolding of creation: light forming from fire, water gathering from stars, and life arising from their meeting, until the living world begins to know itself through us.

Told in lyrical prose and brought to life through Rebecca Rebouché's breathtaking illustrations, this picture book invites readers into a cosmic meditation on connection: how the stars became water, how water became life, and how all living things are threads in the same luminous web.

Part poem and part lullaby, Ocean of Stars offers children and adults alike a gentle way to contemplate existence, and how every being, from the smallest seed to the farthest star, carries the memory of creation within. This is a story to be read aloud, wondered over, and kept close for a lifetime.

Ocean of Stars may be the biggest, little story ever told.

"The luminous prose of Ocean of Stars offers an invitation to remember our fundamental kinship with the natural world. This quiet reflection across space and time lets us see stars everywhere." Robin Wall Kimmerer

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Rebecca Rebouché is an American painter, writer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur known for her decade-long collaboration with Anthropologie and her large-scale paintings of allegorical family trees. Based in her native South Louisiana, her work is fed by the rich artistic history of New Orleans and the myths and mysteries of the city's surrounding forests and waterways.

Ocean of Stars is published by Enchanted Lion Books. Copies will be available for purchase at the event.