Synopses & Reviews
As part of her tenure as U.S. poet laureate, Ada Lim n has written "In Praise of Mystery," which will be engraved on the
Europa Clipper spacecraft that launches to Jupiter and its moons in October 2024. Published here as Lim n's debut picture book, this luminous poem is illustrated by celebrated and internationally renowned artist Peter S s.
In Praise of Mystery celebrates humankind's endless curiosity, asks us what it means to explore beyond our known world, and shows how the unknown can reflect us back to ourselves.
About the Author
Ada Limón is the 24th U.S. poet laureate. She has won
the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and been a finalist
for the National Book Award. She has recently received both a Guggenheim
and a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Peter Sís has received the Robert F. Sibert
Medal, three Caldecott Honors, and a Sydney Taylor Honor. He was the
first children's book creator to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, and won
the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award. He lives in Hudson Valley, New
York.