Description
Once upon a time in the dark of the moon there was a little raccoon…
From the beloved author of such classics asGoodnight MoonandThe Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown, and renowned children’s book illustrator Garth Williams comes the story of a curious little raccoon who wants to see the night.
But his mother says, “Wait. Wait till the moon is full.” So the little raccoon waits and wonders until, at last, the very special evening arrives…
Margaret Wise Brown, cherished for her unique ability to convey a child’s experience and perspective of the world, transformed the landscape of children’s literature with such beloved classics asGoodnight MoonandThe Runaway Bunny. Other perennial favorites by Ms. Brown includeMy World;Christmas in the Barn;The Dead Bird;North, South, East,West; andGood Day, Good Night.
Garth Williamsis the renowned illustrator of almost one hundred books for children, including the belovedStuart Littleby E. B. White,Bedtime for Francesby Russell Hoban, and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
He was born in 1912 in New York City but raised in England. He founded an art school near London and served with the British Red Cross Civilian Defense during World War II. Williams worked as a portrait sculptor, art director, and magazine artist before doing his first bookStuart Little, thus beginning a long and lustrous career illustrating some of the best known children’s books.
In addition to illustrating works by White and Wilder, he also illustrated George Selden’sThe Cricket in Times Squareand its sequels (Farrar Straus Giroux). He created the character and pictures for the first book in the Frances series by Russell Hoban (HarperCollins) and the first books in the Miss Bianca series by Margery Sharp (Little, Brown). He collaborated with Margaret Wise Brown on her Little Golden Books titlesHome for a BunnyandLittle Fur Family,among others, and with Jack Prelutsky on two poetry collections published by Greenwillow:Ride a Purple PelicanandBeneath a Blue Umbrella. He also wrote and illustrated seven books on his own, includingBaby Farm Animals(Little Golden Books) andThe Rabbits’ Wedding(HarperCollins).
Target Age: 5-8
HarperCollins
Pub Date:November 15, 1989
0.12″ H x 10.12″ L x 7.69″ W
36 pages
paperback
