Cover of The Moon Jumpers

The Moon Jumpers

A lyrical story of night-time, in which four small children and a black cat find themselves enchanted with the loveliness of the hot summer night and the magic of the moon. The illustrator won the American Library Association's Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, in 1964.

Audience
picture bookschildrens
Length
short · 32 pages

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