In this moving picture book, Wallace and Turk limn the life story of artist and entrepreneur Marie Procai (1897–1994), focusing on her devotion to her culture’s credo that “as long as pysanky are decorated, there will be good in the world.” As a child in a Ukrainian village, Procai learns from her grandmother the Easter tradition of creating natural dyes for intricately decorating eggs to express “a story, a wish, a prayer, a gift.” Arriving in the U.S. in 1911, she settles in a Ukrainian...