Fish is tired of life underwater where everything is cold and dark, so Fish swims up to the surface where a new friend is found – Sun! Sun is warm and lively and bright, but can the two stay friends forever?

This is a sweet book with some elements of humor, although not as funny as some other early reader titles by Ruzzier, such as the Fox + Chick series. However, this book does have simpler text than those so it is clearly designed for readers who are much newer to reading on their own and need very limited text per page.

The illustrations are quite typical of Ruzzier’s style and the different colors of the sky throughout the day from sunrise to sunset are very beautiful.

Before the story begins, there's a quick tutorial on how to read comics with explanations of panels vs. gutters, different dialogue types, etc. I love how it tells readers to look at visual cues, particularly about emotional states, and extrapolate information from there.

However, although this book is part of the I Can Read! Comics line, it really is not in a graphic novel style at all. Technically there are panels in that every illustration has a border, but each page spread is one image. And yes, there are dialogue bubbles, but that’s not atypical of picture books/early readers that aren’t designed to look like comics. ( )

simple story line; cute story ( )