With a wondrously simple die-cut book, the Caldecott Honor-winning creator of the Journey trilogy brings his talents further into the light. This is the light that brings the day. Open this beautiful book to find a graphic yellow sun surrounded by a halo of bright die-cut circles. Now hold the page up to the light and enjoy the transformation as the colors in those circles glow. In an elegant, sparely narrated ode to the phenomenon of light, Aaron Becker follows as light reflects off the earth to warm our faces, draws up the sea to make the rain, feeds all the things that grow, and helps to create all the brilliant wonders of the world, including ourselves.

What Kind of Book is You Are Light

Topics

nature colors social themes science and nature self-esteem self-esteem and self-reliance first concepts light

Genres

fiction

Reviews

Marmee

4.25

B is for Bookworm

4.00

Lauren Hancock

4.50

It's always fun when a book does something really novel, and the way this book plays with light and color is something I haven't quite seen before. It's a sweet little feel-good board book. It doesn't have much of a story, but it's sure fun to look at.

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Books about fiction

The Creative Behind the Book

Author & Illustrator

Aaron Becker

Aaron Becker learned while living in Granada, Spain, that many of the city’s stone churches had at one point been mosques and, before that, Roman ruins. Which got him thinking: What wisdom can something as still as a rock share with the rest of us? While he could only guess at the answer, he does have some experience with these ancient fragments of earth. After all, the house where he grew up in Baltimore was built from, you guessed it, stone. Aaron Becker lives in western Massachusetts.