My Book Comes Out Today!!
We Carry the Sun is out in the world!!! It's finally here.
Oh, hey, hello!
This is just a quick email to say . . . it’s publication day!! We Carry the Sun is officially out and available for purchase, wherever books are sold.
If you have a history, science, sun, nature, or picture book lover in your life, please consider picking up a copy.
And if you’re in the Seattle area, my launch party is tomorrow! 6 pm at Third Place Books Ravenna. I’d love to see you there. ❤️
What’s inside, you ask? Here are just a few of my favorite spreads. Rachel Wada outdid herself.
Reviews for We Carry the Sun
⭐️ “Full-bleed illustrations, both informative (such as the depiction of the first solar home) and bold (as shown in the extraction of oil), enhance Keller’s compelling, poetic text.”
—Horn Book, starred review
“Ideas of collective imagination and community resilience are threaded throughout the text, purposefully including non-European scientific endeavors and extending to climate activists in current day . . . Readers of any age will be caught up in Wada’s truly breathtaking art, every spread a blaze of light-evoking color as curved refractions and radiating rays demand viewers’ attention . . . Pointed and inclusive, this will be galvanizing for kids beginning to understand the full range of powers (scientific and political) in the world around them.”
—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“The text is engaging, and the imaginative, colorful, and often dramatic artwork will draw readers.”
—Booklist
“Pages highlight innovators harnessing the sun’s energy across time—a teacher using a solar mirror to power a steam engine, a parent warming her baby’s bath in the sun, and more, each person advancing the science one step further... More than a resource about the history of solar energy, it’s also a look at stepwise progress made by standing on the shoulders of those who have come before.”
—Publishers Weekly
Newbery Medalist Tae Keller’s debut picture book is a resplendent account of humankind’s relationship with our most precious resource: the sun.
From the first human settlements to today’s modern metropolises, we have always relied on the sun for light, energy, and sustenance. We Carry the Sun traces the history of solar power from ancient south-facing villages to the Industrial Age and modern innovators; and from solar-powered steam engines to silicon solar panels.
Lyrical and informed, Newbery Medal winner Tae Keller’s debut picture book is also a timely call to action that asks young readers to imagine a brighter, cleaner future. Illuminated by Rachel Wada’s radiant, eye-catching illustrations, We Carry the Sun is a tribute to pioneering thinkers, a celebration of humankind’s relationships with the natural world, and a shimmering ode to the resource that sustains us.
Congratulations 👏🏾🎉 💜 The illustrations are stunning 💞
Yay, congrats!