Vibrant language and rhythm celebrate the start of a new day in this uplifting poem about a city waking up.

On a beautiful, sunny morning, a family runs errands along a city street. They visit a bakery, flower shop and fruit market. Exuberant in sounds and sights—a baker sugaring tarts, flowers greeting passers-by and pigeons cooing—the story ends as a new day of sparkling possibility begins. Written in pantoum form and illustrated with delightful three-dimensional diorama images that play with light and shadow, When Sunlight Tiptoes is sure to brighten the day of our littlest readers.

Gillian Sze is a writer and teacher. Her books for children include The Night Is Deep and Wide and My Love for You Is Always, and her poetry collections include Quiet Night Think which won the 2023 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her book You Are My Favorite Color was a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation Award. Sze is originally from Winnipeg but is now based in Montreal where she teaches creative writing and literature.

Soyeon Kim is a Toronto-based illustrator and art educator. Kim received the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award for her illustrations in the book You Are Stardust.