I Touched the Sun is tender and surreal and quietly wise — the story of a boy who, undeterred by his family's skepticism, flies up to meet the Sun and returns home with a little light of his own. Hayes's illustrations are spare and charcoal-gray, with color reserved almost entirely for the Sun and the life she makes possible — trees, rainbows, the shimmering sea. It's a book about the light and shadow that make up each one of us, so it's no surprise that it's the gift one of our customers chooses again and again for her adult friends.