The Moon Jumpers
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This issue's cover illustration is from Lian Hearn's Across the Nightingale Floor which is discussed by Clive Barnes. Thanks to Pan Macmillan for their help with this November cover.
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The Moon Jumpers
Maurice Sendak
A sparse, haunting text interleaved with seven double pages of Sendak's crepuscular paintings present a vivid description of the rise of a full moon and of the awe and joy this arouses in a family of young children. The story is told in brief, tersely poetic sentences, using an incantatory historic present. The pictures convey exhilaration, enhantment, a tinge of danger and a resigned return to bed. This is a simple, exciting and reassuring book.
