Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs

No matter how far apart we are, I will always find ways to tell you I love you. Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs is a beautiful picture book with a simple but powerful message: love lasts forever. Lyrical writing and delightful illustrations provide soothing bedtime reading for any child. The book is also ideal for supporting children through grief, separation anxiety, divorce, illness or other traumatic situations, by wrapping them in a warm and comforting emotional security blanket and opening a dialogue on the nature of love. Even when loved ones cannot be with us, we can feel their presence through our deep connections to the natural world. Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs has received glowing testimonials from parents, librarians, social workers, teachers, hospice caregivers...and most importantly, kids.
Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs is a Gold Medal winner of the International Publisher Awards, and a featured title in the LeVar Burton Kids Skybrary app. It was selected as a Child's Grief Awareness Day book-of-the-month, and also featured three years in a row for Multicultural Children's Book Day. Sun Kisses, Moon Hugs is also available in a bilingual Spanish-English edition -- please see our listing under "Besos de sol, abrazos de luna".

The book has been recommended as a new favorite resource by organizations that help children coping with a variety of issues such as an incarcerated parent, moving, adoption, foster care, separation, displacement, immigration/refugee, shelter stays, military families/deployed parents, bereavement.and more.

Whenever a child is in need of reassurance that they are loved, now and forever, this book will show them signs of love that exist all around them - from snowflakes to rainbows, tree hugs and whispering breezes, to each grain of sand on the beach...we can always feel the love shining at us from the people in our hearts.

Hugs by moon, kisses by sun, I'll always love you, Little One.