Sundust

Name: Sundust
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ISBN: 9780593700112

A Caldecott Honor Book

Zeke Peña, Zeke Peña

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Kokila
03 September 2025

Children's & young adult fiction & true stories; General fiction (Children's&YA)

In his striking author-illustrator debut, the award-winning illustrator of My Papi Has a Motorcycle offers an immersive and fantastical desert adventure, where the sun reigns over the vast landscape and shapes all that it touches.

""A hypnotic joy."" -Kirkus

Reviews, starred review

CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK . In his striking author-illustrator debut, the award-winning illustrator of My Papi Has a Motorcycle offers an immersive and fantastical desert adventure, where the sun reigns over the vast landscape and shapes all that it touches.

""A hypnotic joy."" -Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Where the rock wall ends, the desert beyond begins.

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 colibri offers an unexpected ride. In the desert, where life revolves around the Sun, brother and sister explore, imagine, and wonder, What if Sun's power was inside me? until their mom's whistle calls them back home again.

With spare, lyrical text, Pura Belpre Honor and Ezra Jack Keats Honor recipient Zeke Pena 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.

By: Zeke Peña
Illustrated by: Zeke Peña
Imprint: Kokila
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 264mm, Width: 262mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 488g
ISBN: 9780593700112
ISBN 10: 0593700112
Pages: 48
Publication Date: 03 September 2025
Recommended Age: From 4 to 8 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Zeke Pena is a Xicano storyteller and professional doodler from El Paso, TX, the Sun City. Sundust, his author-illustrator debut, is a love poem to desert culture and people. Zeke received the Ezra Jack Keats and the Pura Belpre Illustration Honors for My Papi Has a Motorcycle and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for his illustrations in Photographic- The Life of Graciela Iturbide. He also illustrated the New York Times bestseller Miles Morales Suspended- A Spider-Man Novel. He is currently drawing more books in his tiny studio in NW Arkansas.

Reviews for Sundust: (A Caldecott Honor Book)

Praise for Sundust by Zeke Peña: ★ “…stunning...Author-illustrator Peña breathes life into the desert setting…Kids who find magic in everything around them will appreciate this lovely reassurance that they are even more connected to the world than they think.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review ★ ""In a wide-ranging solo debut, Peña (My Papi Has a Motorcycle) imagines two Latinx-cued children exploring a sweeping desertscape.... Speech bubbles add levity to energy-charged prose through this surreal exploration of the way the natural world endures and transforms."" —Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ “A hypnotic joy.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review