Winner of 2007 Governor General's Literary Award
for Children's Literature, Illustration
"The Boy from the Sun, with its striking mix of techniques, lures the unsuspecting reader
away from a dark, gloomy and featureless industrial-urban milieu into a brilliantly
coloured alternative world of light, colour and hope, which, in a twist in a pictorial
narration, turns out to be the real world they were living in all along. This charming,
fresh and joyful book perfectly melds story and image, to both deliver its message and
form a thoroughly satisfying whole."
- Canada Council for the Arts
