(Jan.)'īuried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth An extensive afterword provides a wealth of additional detail. Lyrical writing draws into sharp focus the importance of protecting and cherishing water. I keep the cycle in balance.” The vibrant blues, greens, and blues of Bang's folk-art-style artwork underscore the connections between sun, water, and life, while clarifying evaporation, currents, and other topics.

Once again, the sun speaks directly to readers, explaining that our planet’s water is in a constant state of movement and change: “I keep water moving, cycling from sea to air to land and back again. ★ 'Bang and Chisholm continue their Sunlight series with a poetic, in-depth exploration of the sun’s role in the water cycle. Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth Their energy, originally from the sun, has been transferred to the bonds that hold the sugar molecules together.' Science teachers may welcome the wealth of supportive material from which they can pick and choose data most accessible to their class, but more casual readers who'd just like a beginners' tour of the energy cycle may wish Bang and Chisholm had been a shade less meticulous and laid this out in a more straightforward fashion.For complete details on Penny Chisholm's children's books,

It takes another seven columns of densely packed appended text to expand and explain the preceding narrative, to clarify the simplifications, and to decipher those puzzling pictorial symbols: 'Notice that the energy packets, which are flying out the bottom of the orange ball, have lost their halos. This is my gift of energy to you.' It's a pretty cogent walkthrough, with terms well suited to elementary-grade science students, and listeners can feel fairly confident that they understand the general outline of the cycle-that is, until they begin to question the clusters, clumps, and waves of little dots that wind their way through stylized, jewel-toned Earth- and space-scapes. This is photosynthesis-making life with sunlight, by light. Who knew she could be so poetic? 'All the leaves and stems and juices, all the seeds and fruit and flowers of all the plants on Earth are built with sugar made from air and water using my light energy. This introduction to the cyclical relationship between photosynthesis in plants and respiration in animals (particularly, here, of the human ilk) is narrated by the Sun itself.

Living Sunlight by Molly Bang