Starflower: The Making of a Poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay

J. M. Farkas and Emily Vizzo’s Starflower is a lyrical picture book biography about Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s childhood and the two sisters who inspired her.

Good things come in threes, like peas, like wishes, like sisters. Vincent—American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay—began writing and publishing poetry as a child. She grew up in coastal Maine with her two sisters and plenty of books, music, and nature, but often without parents—her father left home when they w...