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By Carrie Kingsley
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Gorgeous picture book explores questions for the sun.
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What's the Story?
GOOD GOLDEN SUN celebrates the world and everything in it as the sun rises, touches everything in its path with its warmth and light, and sets again. Animals and people live their days in the sunshine and ask it questions about how it feels, if it's happy, if it wants to play, whether its voice is loud or quiet. As the sun sets and the moon rises, a child has even more questions for the evening.
Is It Any Good?
The illustrations in this picture book are stunningly beautiful, using a variety of media to create immersive collaged scenes to ask the sun questions about its feelings and experiences. Good Golden Sun is a simple story that helps young minds ask curious and complicated questions about our big world. The cadence and near-rhyming are unexpected, so reading aloud draws attention to the differences in rhythm. The questions are good prompts for other discussions about how we fit in the world, but the real star of the book are the images, filled with warmth and life, on every page.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how what happens in Good Golden Sun reflects how they feel in their own days. When do you feel like the world is big? Are there times when you're nervous about things around you? Where do you like to play?
How do you feel about the sun when it sets and the moon when it rises? What else are you curious about when it comes to the sun's impact on life on Earth?
Which do you prefer, the sun or the moon? Why?
Book Details
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- Genre : Picture Book
- Topics : Animals ( Wild Animals ) , STEM ( Nature )
- Character Strengths : Curiosity
- Book type : Fiction
- Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Publication date : February 18, 2025
- Publisher's recommended age(s) : 4 - 8
- Number of pages : 40
- Available on : Hardback
- Last updated : January 23, 2026
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