Sundust

By: Zeke Peña

Published by Penguin Group, 2025-08-05

<b>In his striking author-illustrator debut, the award-winning illustrator of <i>My Papi Has a Motorcycle </i>offers an immersive and fantastical desert adventure, where the sun reigns over the vast landscape and shapes all that it touches.<br> <br>“A hypnotic joy.” —<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, starred review</b><br><br><i>Where the rock wall ends, the desert beyond begins.</i><br><br>Following a blazing trail of sundust, two curious siblings hop the wall into a place that’s endless and free. Here, prickly old nopal trees beg to be climbed, empty turtle shells invite a closer look, enormous rocks model how to sit still and listen, and a colibrí offers an unexpected ride. In the desert, where life revolves around the Sun, brother and sister explore, imagine, and wonder, <i>What if Sun’s power was inside me? </i>until their mom’s whistle calls them back home again.<br><br>With spare, lyrical text, Pura Belpré Honor and Ezra Jack Keats Honor recipient Zeke Peña has created a fantastical tale that suspends moments in time with his radiant art and celebrates the bonds between the sun, the desert, and its people.