Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler inventor until the day his solitude

until the day his solitude is disrupted by a sudden flutter of wings and a loud screech

Put on your apron and get cooking

drawing closer and closer to the cave

launching a lifelong passion fueled by remarkable talent

He could not prove it in his lifetime

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler inventor until the day his solitudeA Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler, author of Parable of the Sower and Kindred. "Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil