Nancy Hundal has a gift for lyrical, imaginative stories told from a child's unique perspective. Nowhere is this gift more alive than in her newest picture book, Melted Star Journey. It's the story of Luke, sitting in the back seat of his family's darkened car, safe in that place between sleep and the reality of the awake-world.

Luke finds the rain and the night have transformed his everyday world into something extraordinary: a slithery line of red tail lights flashes secret messages to him, and the flicker of the redbluewhite police lights turn his brother and sister into people he no longer recognizes.