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With a bold, colorful cover, kids will immediately be drawn to Ray: How Light Works, a nonfiction picture book with a lot of style.
Featuring characters from the other two books in the series, Puff (air) and Drop (water), Ray is an information packed picture book.
Readers learn that all light ultimately comes from stars like the sun, even the glow of fireflies. Puff is shown to filter harmful solar radiation and Drop demonstrates how light powers the hydrologic cycle.

The narrative is fun with lots of bright and bold color, and charming characters.
The typeface is different when the characters speak and use puns like, “I’m traveling light,” to make the point that light is weightless.
Ray is pictured throughout as a fuzzy ball of light with a three dot face surrounded by rays like an illustrated sun.
Ray: How Light Works is a great introduction to the concept of light that will ignite a child's interest in science.