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".