<p><b>The cooking of a healthy breakfast moves from parent-child bonding to an eloquent conversation about energy, the growth of plants, and the miraculous ways the sun’s light nourishes us all. </b></p> <p><i>It began with the sun,<br> Who showers the earth<br> With heat and light—<br> Tiny packets of energy.</i> </p> <p>How does a home-cooked breakfast give a little girl the energy she needs for a brand-new day? In gently expressive language, her mother takes readers on a journey into the earth where sleepy seeds are tickled awake and grow into golden oats; into blueberry patches, where green leaves break apart water and air to build sweet sugar; and into a pasture where sun becomes grass, becomes cow, becomes milk.</p> <p>Author <b>Laura Alary</b>’s free verse breaks big ideas into child-sized pieces, making <i>Sun in My Tummy</i> an accessible introduction to the concepts of matter a