Good Golden Sun

PreS-Gr 3–Wenzel presents a visually arresting tribute to the sun and its life-giving force to the planet and the creatures, big and small, who inhabit it. A honeybee greets the sun’s first rays as she lands on the petals of a flower. The sun’s energy is passed to the bee and from the bee to a honeycomb. Glowing, golden energy moves from animal to animal, then to plants, and culminates with a cat and a boy saying farewell to the “good golden sun” as it slips over the horizon and “pass[es] on all our questions to the moon.” The journey of the energy through the cycle of life on Earth will fascinate readers, and the illustrations brim with action and honest information. In one spread a mouse is eaten by a coyote and the text asks, “Good golden sun, are you happy? Are you sad? Or do you stay up above the clouds where tears are never shed?”