The Tiny Star is a 2019 children's picture book by Mem Fox and illustrated by Freya Blackwood.

It is about a star falling to Earth, turning into a baby, living a loving fulfilling life, dying, than returning to the heavens as a star.

According to Fox, it took her five years to write.

[1] A reviewer for the Reading Time wrote "The Tiny Star is a valuable, uplifting and poignant story for the young to make sense of, and find comfort in, heartbreaking loss",[2] and recommended it as a best book of the year.

[3] Publishers Weekly called it a "meditation".