The Last One Who Remembered

• Ages 4–9
• 20 pages
• Hardcover · 11 × 8.5 in
• By Lamont Kirton

Emeka’s star is finally finished — all five points lit at once. And then, one by one, they start going out. She has learned five beautiful things and never told a single person, and a light you keep is a light that goes out. Worse: The Dim has gone quiet, because it has gone upstream. It has found the person every one of those stories came from — an old woman in a chair, a long way away, who has been handing out stories her whole life and was never once asked for one twice.

A story about grandmothers, memory, and asking while there is still time.