Where Is the Sun?/Ready-to-Read Ready-to-Go!

by Eric Carle

Where is the sun? Follow it as it moves across the sky in this poetic Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read filled with Eric Carle’s iconic art style.

Perfect for kids at the beginning of their reading journeys, Where Is the Sun? was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading! And what better way to get kids excited than with a fun story with words they can actually read by the one and only Eric Carle?

Each Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read includes a note to parents explaining what their child can expect, a guide at the beginning for readers to become familiar with the words they will encounter in the story, and reading comprehension questions at the end. Each Ready-to-Go! story contains about 100 words and features sight words, rhyming words, and repetition to help children reinforce their new reading skills. In this book, readers will learn thirteen sight words and six words from three word families.

Genres: Picture Books, Storytime, Childrens, Nature

32 pages, Hardcover

First published December 10, 2019

About the author

Eric Carle was an American author, designer and illustrator of children's books. His picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar, first published in 1969, has been translated into more than 66 languages and sold more than 50 million copies. Carle's career as an illustrator and children's book author accelerated after he collaborated on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?. Carle illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote, and more than 145 million copies of his books have been sold around the world.
In 2003, the American Library Association awarded Carle the biennial Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (now called the Children's Literature Legacy Award), a prize for writers or illustrators of children's books published in the U.S. who have made lasting contributions to the field. Carle was also a U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010.

Reviews

[Deke Moulton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perhaps one of the last books written and illustrated by Eric Carle, this is a cute and simple primer on the sun for very young kids. The opposites (the sun is out, the sun is hidden) paired with illustrations on how the sun moves across the sky will help with correcting understandings as well as a knowledge of opposites. My kids put on an impromptu play while reading it, and the back and forth format of the book helps to lead to this.

[Rereader · Rating 3 out of 5]

2023 May Reading Challenge
Prompt: read a book with the sun on the cover

Shut up, I was struggling to find books w/ a sun that I wanted to read.

That being said, this was a fine read. Obviously designed for younger readers for the express purpose of teaching them vocab words, so there's not much of a story. Still, the art was amazing as is typical for Eric Carle, so it gets a pass. A simply nice read.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Eric Carle's illustrations in this book. He incorporates different animals in different landscapes. Everything is so beautiful! I love his mountains and the scenes with the elephant and the deer.

[Tiffany · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book for my beginning reader and we love looking at Eric Carley's artwork. It's great recognizing "characters" from other books we've read (the owl, the dolphin, the moon, children...)

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This beginning reader describes the sun.

The text is short and simple, using rhymes and sight words. The illustrations are done in Eric Carle’s signature style.

[Miss Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

A simple toddler and up book about the sun including its job and places to find it. Bright colorful pictures.

[Christine Grant · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple story about the sun.

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[emyrose8 · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great book for beginning readers. There’s a list of frequent words, word families, sight words, and questions at the end. Great illustrations too!

[Crystal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice, but wish it didn't say that the sun moves in the sky. I know it isn't a science book, but it would be better without that slightly misleading line.

[Joan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can’t get enough of Eric Carle’s illustration technique. Love this basic book that teaches reading and a little about the sun too.

[Ali Book&Seaglasshunter · Rating 3 out of 5]

An easy early reader, my preschooler read this one on her own. Where is the sun, when do you see it, etc. some animals are featured too. Nice illustrations in the typical Carle style.

[Jeanine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for learning opposites and maybe a small amount of nature awareness.

[Christie Kaaland · Rating 3 out of 5]

Posthumously placed classic Eric Carle illustrations lucratively stretch the legendary concept book author-illustrator to present several depictions of the sun.

[Canette Arille · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the book you have to find the sun, hidden in different places. The illustrations are very nice. Children can learn to practice reading. they will like this book.

[Lorellie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simple and charming.

[Blair · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book for kindergartens to read simple sentences and also admire the illustrations.

[Beth · Rating 2 out of 5]

A cute picture book.

[🌒JFosbookboss🌒 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just ok book for sight words, I read to my four year old for the love of Eric Carle books, but I would pass on this for sight words reading next year.