There is quite a bit of information for thought in this book, considering there is only one sentence per page. John Wallace does a fabulous job of instilling wonder with his soft watercolors and ink illustrations. His illustrations of having fun in the sun at the beach teaming up with the informational text by Marion Dane Bauer, in this sixth part of their series on weather for young readers hits the mark. SUN has me wanting to go outside to gather some warmth in the daytime and by night to see the other stars in the Milky Way Galaxy of which our sun is a part.

Though our sun is not the biggest star in the sky or the hottest, it is the closest one to Earth. Our sun gives us light, heat, vitamin D, and is just the right distance from Earth so water can be in all three states of matter- solid, liquid, and gas.

There are eight more “Facts about the Sun” on the very last page dealing with size, distance, temperature, and age of the sun.