Books with title Sun and Spoon

One day, tired of living alone high above, the Moon came down from the sky and began to walk aimlessly, thoughtfully. After going a long way, a strange light caught her attention. As she approached, astonished, found the Sun sleeping among the flowers. Soon, a beautiful friendship blossomed between them as their different sparkles completed each other.

Addie, my six year old daughter likes to make up songs and stories. A few months ago, she called me into our front room to show me something. She led me to a long piece of paper hanging on the wall that she had decorated with colorful drawings. Using her pictures, Addie told me the story of the sun and the moon. She explained that at first the sun and the moon did not like each other very much. Then one day, the moon noticed the sun helped the flowers grow and the sun noticed that the moon allowed people to see the stars. After that, the sun and the moon became best friends.I was so impressed and inspired by her story, I decided to make it the basis for my next children’s book. Sun and Moon tells the story of the way the sun and the moon became friends. Just like in Addie’s story, the sun and the moon don’t like each other much at first. They spend the day and night complaining about each other. One day the sun notices the qualities of the moon, and the moon discovers the benefits of the sun. Once they learn to appreciate each other, they become the best of friends.While writing and illustrating Sun and Moon, I wanted to maintain Addie’s original story idea and theme. I also tried to incorporate some of her personal style by designing the elements of the book to resemble the way she often rips paper into shapes and pastes it into place. After a couple of months, I surprised Addie with the finished book. She liked the story and the pictures and was excited to see her name on the cover. She also pointed out that I had embellished some of the story.Whether it’s Addie’s succinct version or the book’s more elaborate approach, the core message of Sun and Moon is the same. Once we take time to discover and appreciate the value of each other, we quickly become friends.Sun and Moon tells the story of how the Sun and Moon became the best of friends. For a long time Sun and Moon had only complaints against each. “When the Moon is out the flowers cannot grow,” the Sun declared. “It’s too hot when the Sun is out,” said the Moon. On and on these discussions went until one day the Sun began to see the qualities of the Moon and the Moon began to see the benefits of the Sun. Soon after Sun and Moon became the best of friends. Sun and Moon is a based on a story invented by my daughter, Addie. It is a story about friendship and seeing the good is each other.

Day after day, the Sun and the Moon follow their lonely, separate paths across the sky. How they wish they could meet and become friends. One sunny day, their paths finally cross--with dramatic results! Pfister illustrates this fanciful explanation of eclipses in vivid colors, finding bold shapes and patterns in the earth and sky, in stormy and sunny weather.

There is nothing in life that eighteen year old Zara craves more than her freedom. Stolen from her home in Cadrebia at the age of eight, Zara has spent more years than she cared to admit as a slave to the Tankadesh courts. Her days are filled with protecting the princess, while she spends nights entertaining the king and his officials with her mastery of weapons. Any spare moment in between, she plots escape. Yet her hopes for freedom come to a crashing halt when a stranger arrives bearing the mark of her assigned lifemate, and he threatens war if she isn’t turned over into his care. But a lifemate is not part of the plan. Her dreams, of choosing her own path and being the master of her own will, weaken as her Moon seeks to claim his Sun. Is it possible that this stranger, with gentle blue eyes and a ready smile, didn’t come to be her new master? That there could be more to his tale? Zara soon finds that neither her captivity nor her parents’ deaths were mere random attacks. And by returning to Cadrebia, she may have put the future of the royal line—and her Moon—in jeopardy. While Zara breathes in her first taste of freedom, her enemies move in, seeking to rob Cadrebia of its blessed prophecy. To keep what she holds dear, Zara must rise above the pain and uncertainty to claim the lifemate assigned to her, or more than her freedom will be stolen this time.