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Picture book · Children

The Moon Jumpers

written by Janice May Udry, illustrated by Maurice Sendak

40 pages · 1979

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About the book

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 author won the American Library Association's Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, in 1964

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