The Best Children’s Books About the Sun

The sun introduces itself — 4.6 billion years old, a million Earths wide, and only medium-sized as stars go.

A cartoon sun explains fusion, sunspots, solar wind, and why every other star is basically a rival.

Sunrise crosses the world one place at a time until it finally reaches a small boy’s window.

When the sun goes missing behind weeks of gray winter, a family bakes a giant loaf shaped like it.

People all over the world greet the sunrise, each in their own way, because it is worth greeting.

A Pueblo boy travels to the Sun to find his father, passing through four fearsome kivas to prove who he is.

The world is dark until Raven turns himself into a pine needle and steals the sun back from the Sky Chief.

The sun goes missing and only a stubborn lizard keeps looking, long after everyone else has given up.

The sun explains how its light became the electricity in a lamp, the wind in a turbine, and the food on a plate.

A plain, well-labeled tour of what the sun is, how it moves through a day, and why it matters.

Die-cut windows catch the light while a short poem follows it from the sun into everything it touches.

Birds quiet down, the temperature drops, and for a few minutes in the middle of the day it is dusk.

Three very different kids meet at a remote campground where thousands have gathered to watch a total eclipse.