The Boy from the Sun facts for kids
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| Author | Duncan Weller |
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| Illustrator | Duncan Weller |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
| Published | 2006 (Simply Read Books) |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 36 |
| ISBN | 1894965337 |
The Boy from the Sun is a 2006 children's book by Canadian author Duncan Weller. The second edition, a ten-year anniversary book was reprinted in 2016 with an additional 4 illustrations under the author's publishing company name Rogue Planet Books.
Plot
Three children sit unenthusiastically on a sidewalk "between home and school." A black cloud forms above their heads and grows larger. The cloud not only represents pollution emanating from the three smoke stacks but the state of mind of the children. The black cloud grows bigger until the Boy from the Sun performs a magic trick. The cloud grows smaller when he takes the three children on a magical journey through a magnificent forest filled with a great variety of people, animals, trees and birds. The journey is taken on a sidewalk, which eventually breaks leaving the children free to play in a field. The Boy from the Sun recites a poem written in iambic pentameter, telling them the value of internalizing the amazing world around them so they can become part of the world through a combination of Chance, Choice and Change. There is a transference of "light" from the Boy from the Sun to the children and the factory returns without the cloud to symbolize the children's control over their state of mind and to suggest that nothing is always perfect: that the black factory of our dark side is always with us, but that we can stop it from clouding our world by experiencing the beauty of the world that keeps us happy and our imaginations keen. The book has been described by the author as an "invocation to the Heavenly Muse of Art" as an aid in his career as an artist.
