Storytime Takeover with Mk Smith Despres

We're so excited for our storytime takeover with Mk Smith Despres! 

Storytime will start around 10:03, as our doors open at 10:00, and will take place inside the store. Or if the weather is nice enough, in our backyard.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
There’s That Sun Again is a beginner’s guide to the rhythm of life. Follow two children through one extraordinary, ordinary school day. They swing from sunbeams, bathe in crashing waves of noise and tide pools of quiet, fall down, get up, and walk home on air, band aids on elbows, ready for rest in loving family’s arms.

Each high—the beautiful sun—meets with a low—its unbearable heat—which is followed by something else entirely different—rain!—that makes each piece of the day feel like an important part of the same puzzle. Across the course of the book, these two children will find each other, and rescue each other, again and again. 

Being a child can feel like being buffeted along by a huge force out of your control. At any moment, something incredible could happen—but so could something scary, or sad, or hard—and everything is always changing. Learning to cope means learning the cycles, the things you can depend on. This book illuminates that cycle, showing that every day has its ups and downs and back agains—and empowers readers to meet this emotional turbulence with strength, self-knowledge, and wonder. 

Mk Smith Despres’s effortlessly poetic text soars and dips, capturing bliss, sorrow, calm and uncertainty with a crystal-clear lens. Julie Benbassat’s artwork is nothing short of unforgettable. There’s That Sun Again is cut from the best cloth of fantasy: the kind whose magic reflects the world exactly as it feels.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Mk Smith Despres is the author of several picture books with Enchanted Lion Books. They grew up near the ocean in New Jersey, but now live by a river in western Massachusetts where they write, teach, make art, and read lots of books with their family.