Hayes Leah
Hayes Leah - I Touched The Sun - Hardcover
Hayes Leah - I Touched The Sun - Hardcover
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Description: A young boy goes on a journey to meet the Sun and discovers his inner light in this wondrous picture book debut from the NYT - Bestselling graphic novelist of Not Funny Ha - Ha. A Marginalian Favorite Book of 2023! A boy befriends the sun in a story that will fill readers with the deep warmth emanating from its two lead characters. I wasn t prepared for this book and the affecting warmth of its wisdom. Cartoonist and illustrator R. Kikuo Johnson " A beautiful exploration of the inner light in all of us." C artoonist and animator Dash Shaw His mother says it's too far away. His dad says it's too hot. And his brother says he has more important things to do. But none of this discourages a young boy from pursuing his plan: to fly up into the sky to touch the Sun whose light always feels so nice on his skin. And so off he goes all by himself. Warm and kindly the Sun shows the boy the world from her perspective: her friends the clouds the beaches upon which she shines down the trees she's grown the rainbows she creates. In return the boy shares with her some of his dreams fears hopes and uncertainties complexities of the human condition that the Sun as a cosmic force of constant light has never experienced. In this way the boy begins to understand something about the pattern of light and shadow that makes up every human life. And when it's time to part ways the boy returns home to his family changed with an inner light that reminds him that the cosmic force of the sun is in him too always though darkness falls though he sleeps and dreams though doubts and fears and gloominess come too.
Title: I Touched The Sun
Author(s): Hayes Leah
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Barcode: 9781592703906
Pages: 64 Pages, Mixed-Media
Publication Date: 6/6/2023
Category: Personal & Social Issues: Self-Awareness & Self-Esteem (Children's / Teenage)
Description: A young boy goes on a journey to meet the Sun and discovers his inner light in this wondrous picture book debut from the NYT - Bestselling graphic novelist of Not Funny Ha - Ha. A Marginalian Favorite Book of 2023! A boy befriends the sun in a story that will fill readers with the deep warmth emanating from its two lead characters. I wasn t prepared for this book and the affecting warmth of its wisdom. Cartoonist and illustrator R. Kikuo Johnson " A beautiful exploration of the inner light in all of us." C artoonist and animator Dash Shaw His mother says it's too far away. His dad says it's too hot. And his brother says he has more important things to do. But none of this discourages a young boy from pursuing his plan: to fly up into the sky to touch the Sun whose light always feels so nice on his skin. And so off he goes all by himself. Warm and kindly the Sun shows the boy the world from her perspective: her friends the clouds the beaches upon which she shines down the trees she's grown the rainbows she creates. In return the boy shares with her some of his dreams fears hopes and uncertainties complexities of the human condition that the Sun as a cosmic force of constant light has never experienced. In this way the boy begins to understand something about the pattern of light and shadow that makes up every human life. And when it's time to part ways the boy returns home to his family changed with an inner light that reminds him that the cosmic force of the sun is in him too always though darkness falls though he sleeps and dreams though doubts and fears and gloominess come too.
Title: I Touched The Sun
Author(s): Hayes Leah
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Barcode: 9781592703906
Pages: 64 Pages, Mixed-Media
Publication Date: 6/6/2023
Category: Personal & Social Issues: Self-Awareness & Self-Esteem (Children's / Teenage)
