Summer Is Here [Hardcover]

Celebrate iconic childhood joys in this love letter to summer featuring bright, sun-drenched art, fromNew York Timesbestselling and award-winning creators Ren?e Watson and Bea Jackson.

Summer is here!
No dark clouds in the sky,
it's a perfect day for play.
What joy will summer bring me today?

Summer is finally here, and she's bringing the most perfect day! From sunup to sundown, there's so much to do on this lovely summer day. With summer comes fresh fruit, sweet and tangy, jump ropes for leaping and dancing, and friends at the pool swimming and floating. Summer brings family cookouts under shady trees, gardens overflowing, and the familiar song of the ice-cream truck. This beautiful ode to all the season's sensations follows one girl's perfect day in an exploration of joy, family, friendship, sunshine, and wonder.

Her stars shimmer like spilled glitter across the sky.
I whisper a wish and say goodbye to the day.
I wish summer would stay.

Ren?e Watson is a #1New York Timesbestselling author. Her novelAll the Blues in the Skywon the Newbery Medal, andPiecing Me Togetherreceived a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award.Her books include the Ryan Hart series,Some Places More Than Others,This Side of Home,What Momma Left Me, Betty Before X, cowritten with Ilyasah Shabazz,Watch Us Rise, cowritten with Ellen Hagan, andLove Is a Revolution, as well as acclaimed picture books:Summer Is Here,Maya's Song,The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, written with Nikole Hannah-Jones,A Place Where Hurricanes Happen, andHarlem's Little Blackbird, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Ren?e splits her time between Portland, Olã4