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When the Moon Comes
  • Published: 15 September 2017
  • ISBN: 9781101917770
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $35.00

When the Moon Comes

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12 Sept 2017
Hardback
15 Sept 2017
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In this atmospheric story, a group of kids play hockey on a frozen lake by moonlight. At once nostalgic and timely, this is a gorgeous book that will speak to readers young and old.

The beaver flood has finally frozen--perfect ice, without a bump or a ripple. For the kids in town, it's Christmas in November. They wait, impatiently, for the right moment.

Finally, it arrives: the full moon.

They huff and puff through logging trails, farms, back roads and tamarack swamps, the powdery snow soaking pant legs and boots, till they see it--their perfect ice, waiting.

And the game is on.

When the moon Comes is steeped in tradition and nostalgia: for hockey, for childhood, for a simpler time. The beauty of the text is matched by the brilliant, rich illustrations that wonderfully capture the magic of a moonlit night in winter.
  • Published: 15 September 2017
  • ISBN: 9781101917770
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 40
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the authors

Matt James

MATT JAMES has won many awards for his picture books such as the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, the New Mexico Book Award and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Children's Literature. The books he has written include Tadpoles; Nice Try, Charlie!; and his author-illustrator debut The Funeral, which was named a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book. He also illustrated When the Moon Comes by Paul Harbridge; The One About the Blackbird by Melanie Florence; The Stone Thrower by Jael Ealey Richardson; and I’m Afraid, Said the Leaf by Danielle Daniel.
MJ

Praise for When the Moon Comes

PRAISE FOR Matt James:
The Pirate's Bed:
"What sets The Pirate's Bed apart from other tales of its ilk is the main character - the bed itself .... James also has an impressive ability to convey the emotional journey of the secret-laden bed, especially through its bedpost eyes. This unique viewpoint, both in narrative and art, makes The Pirate's Bed charming and memorable."
--Quill & Quire

I Know Here:
"James's naive style has an infectious, unfettered energy. Croza's spare text captures the narrator's feelings of displacement with poetic immediacy."
--Quill & Quire

"Matt James calibrates his paintings to convey the relationship between memory and art, between what a child sees and how she recalls the experience of seeing. . . . The layering of paint, the dark outlines of animals and objects, the piling on and scratching away: all these techniques find parallels in the workings of memory."
--The New York Times

Northwest Passage:
"Both realistic and allusive, these images are as haunting as the song. For U.S. readers, an illumination of a little-known history; for all Americans, a treasure." --Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW