Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers Talk to William Joyce and see upcoming work at on Twitter and Instagram. Morris Lessmore, which is also his Academy Award–winning short film, to name a few). William Joyce does a lot of stuff but children’s books are his true bailiwick (The Guardians series, Dinosaur Bob series, George Shrinks, and the #1 New York Times bestselling The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. It is this realization-that there will always be children who need moments of bravery, who need rosy cheeks, who need to build snowmen, and who are then eager for a spring day-that makes Jack realize why he is a forever boy, and worthy of becoming a Guardian of Childhood. Through helping them, Jack finds the warmth he’s been yearning for, and realizes bringing joy to others can melt his own chill.
To keep the cold in his heart from taking over, he spreads it to the landscapes around him and earns a new name: Jack Overland Frost.īut a true friend always comes through, and on one particularly bleak night, Mim shines down and shows Jack a group of children in great peril. And while Nightlight has fun sailing icy winds and surfing clouds, he is also lonely without his friend Mim. But when Pitch destroys Mim’s world, he nearly destroys Nightlight too, sending him plunging to Earth where, like Peter Pan, he is destined to remain forever a boy, frozen in time. Discover how Jack Frost keeps the hearts of children happy in the third picture book in Academy Award winner William Joyce’s New York Times bestselling and “dazzlingly inventive” ( Publishers Weekly) The Guardians of Childhood series.īefore Jack Frost was Jack Frost, he was Nightlight, the most trusted and valiant companion of Mim, the Man in the Moon.
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