Stella Keeps the Sun Up

Clothilde Ewing author Lynn Gaines illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

Published:28th Apr '22

Should be back in stock very soon

Stella Keeps the Sun Up cover

In this incandescently fun, hijinks-filled picture book, a young girl schemes to keep the sun up in the sky so she never has to go to bed.

If Stella had her way, she would stop sleeping on her sixth birthday. Because sleep is boring. And there are so many better things you could be doing. And Stella is tired of being tired. So she comes up with a plan. People only have to go to bed when it gets dark, and it only gets dark because the sun goes down. If she can keep the sun in the sky, she and her best friend, Roger, can stay up for a hundred years!

They enact their magnificent, wonderful, genius plan, offering the sun a cup of coffee, shining a light at it so it will shine back, and jumping on a trampoline to reach the sun and push it higher. But before long, Stella begins to wonder…are there downsides to keeping the sun up forever?

This bedtime story would be useful for reluctant sleepers or to introduce children to the concept of time zones. -- School Library Journal * December 1, 2021 *
An epiphany that provides a well-timed reason to embrace nighttime rituals, and adult readers with a fresh reason for arguing in favor of a good night’s rest. -- Publishers Weekly * 3/7/22 *

ISBN: 9781534487857

Dimensions: 279mm x 229mm x 18mm

Weight: 488g

48 pages