Good Golden Sun: A Conversation with Brendan Wenzel

It isn’t that Brendan Wenzel is simply a good children’s book illustrator. I mean, that’s not the kind of thing folks would even bother to contest. Whether it’s his Caldecott Honor winner They All Saw a Cat, the more recent Two Together, or his board books or what have you, the man’s got talent. To hear that there is a new Brendan Wenzel book out, uh, (checks watch) today, is a significant thing. Particularly when it incorporates science in its storytelling. Sun science, no less.

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