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Texts by Claire Cock-Starkey,
Illustrations by Hannah Bess Ross

What and how many stories are connected to the stars, constellations and planets? In this beautifully illustrated book you will find collected myths and beliefs from every corner of the world.

Did you know that people once read the future in the flight of birds? That constellations were believed to be mythological beings set in the sky? And that eclipses were seen as demonic omens? For millennia, humans have looked to the sky to explain the world around and above them.

Myths, folktales and legends are as mysterious as they are varied and are presented here in a beautifully illustrated and engaging format. You will discover the secrets of auspices, stories explaining the birth of the Milky Way, and the beings and deities said to rule the higher worlds.

Divided into six chapters devoted respectively to the sky, sun, moon, stars, planets and cosmos, this book will know how to take you into the depths of space to the mists of time to shed light on the myriad answers to our oldest questions.

TEXTS
Claire Cock-Starkey – She is the author of many books devoted to history, libraries, words, books and museums. She can be found happily perched in the reading rooms of the British Library, surrounded by a stack of obscure and fascinating books, searching for her next book.

ILLUSTRATIONS
Hannah Bess Ross – She is a Chicago-based illustrator and writer. She lives in a little house with a blue door and an orange cat, but dreams of the woods and waves of distant seas. She enjoys telling stories of ordinary magic and looking at the stars.