There’s That Sun Again

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by Mk Smith Despres & Julie Benbassat

For graduation, for Mother’s Day, for Valentine’s Day, for every day: a resonant celebration of the joys and challenges of growing up . . . and life itself.

Theres That Sun Again is a beginners guide to the rhythm of life. Follow two children through one extraordinary, ordinary school day. They swing from sunbeams, bathe in crashing waves of noise and tide pools of quiet, fall down, get up, and walk home on air, band aids on elbows, ready for rest in loving familys arms.

Each highthe beautiful sunmeets with a lowits unbearable heatwhich is followed by something else entirely differentrain!that makes each piece of the day feel like an important part of the same puzzle. Across the course of the book, these two children will find each other, and rescue each other, again and again.

Being a child can feel like being buffeted along by a huge force out of your control. At any moment, something incredible could happenbut so could something scary, or sad, or hardand everything is always changing. Learning to cope means learning the cycles, the things you can depend on. This book illuminates that cycle, showing that every day has its ups and downs and back againsand empowers readers to meet this emotional turbulence with strength, self-knowledge, and wonder.

Mk Smith Despress effortlessly poetic text soars and dips, capturing bliss, sorrow, calm and uncertainty with a crystal-clear lens. Julie Benbassats artwork is nothing short of unforgettable. Theres That Sun Again is cut from the best cloth of fantasy: the kind whose magic reflects the world exactly as it feels.