Ray
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A humorous picture book about the adventures of a light bulb who embarks on an enlightening journey, from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Petra.
At the end of the hall, near the staircase, is a closet. In that closet lives Ray, who is a light bulb. Ray spends most of his time in darkness, which is pretty boring if you don't know how to fill it. So boring that Ray usually slips into a dreamless sleep . . .
Everything changes one day when Ray is migrated into a portable lantern and taken on the trip of a lifetime. He wakes up in a much larger closet (the outside), surrounded by incredible things - too many to count! Everything is super big, and Ray has never felt so small. And in the morning, Ray makes an incredible discovery which will change his life forever.
Meet Ray, a charming new character from the imaginative mind of Marianna Coppo, the creator of Petra!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Ray is a globe light bulb in a family's storage closet that "goes from here to there. That's it." His only company is a child who occasionally uses the closet as a "secret hideout," a spider named Tom, and 41 items that Ray has counted many, many times. Mostly, Ray is left quite literally in the dark, which, Coppo (Petra) writes, "is boring if you don't know how to fill it." But when Ray is put into a lantern and travels with the family on a camping trip, the world opens up for him as na f digitized tempera and pastel drawings reveal a verdant, wooded landscape filled with flora, fauna, and natural phenomena, including "the biggest light bulb in the world" the sun. Readers attached to fair outcomes may feel indignant when the "glowing" Ray is resequestered in the closet following the family's return home. But to Coppo, life really is what one makes of it, and Ray has received an incredible gift all the memories and fodder for imagination that he needs to create a whole world out of a dim situation. Ages 3 7.
