What the Sun Looks Like When it 's Asleep

I came across delightful illustration by painter Willy Pogany in M.G. Edgar's "A Treasury of Versus for Little Children" published in 1923.

It is on page 68: A small boy kneels between two trees in a dark froest; behind him is a brown house. In front of him and beneath him a great cave, brightly lit by the sleeping sun, who has taken the form of a lying man in bed with a beautific smile on his face. The boy's face is one of delight and awe.

The caption reads, "What the sun looks like when it's asleep". Also on page 68 there is the poem below:

The Sunset Garden

I can see from the window a little brown house,

And the garden goes up to the top of the hill.

And the sun comes each day,

And slips down away

At the end of the garden an’ sleeps there . . . until

The daylight comes climbing up over the hill.

I I do wish I lived in the little brown house,

Then at night I’d go up to the garden, an’ creep

Up . . . up . . . then I’d stop,

An’ lean over the top,

At the end of the garden, an’ so I could peep

And see what the sun looks like when it’s asleep.

by Marion St John Webb

I was very much inspired by the verse and Pogley's illustration to make the collage below.

But, our story is not only about what the sun looks like when it's asleep. Look for it soon in our Tales.

WhenSunfellasleepillustration&story@Babetteandfriends