Moon Forest
Published on 1. March 2013
Book
Hardback
32 pages
978-1-84780-283-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Moon Forest, night is coming. The moon rises in the forest, and illuminates the coming and going of nocturnal creatures foraging in a temperate forest wilderness. The fox must find food for its young. The deer are stampeding! And meanwhile the hare, the owl, the badger and the bats are out and about. All through the night the fox is prowling, hunting. The rabbit manages to escape, but as dawn breaks the fox spots a flock of geese. Maybe this is his last chance to find a meal to take back to his cubs. . .
Reviews / Votes
'Lyrical text swirls around...beautiful pictures.' 'If ever a book of nature was to be both informative and exciting, this is it. ... A magnificent book for keeps.' 'This exquisite picture book is a poetic tribute to the beauty of nature. . . MacCarthy expertly uses a palette of greys, blues, greens, browns, silvers and purples to create a symphony of movement. . . This book will make a pleasant addition to school library shelves. It is a worthy candidate for a Greenaway shortlist. Students will enjoy the illustrations and the rhythmical sounds of alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia.' ' Lyrical text swirls around...beautiful pictures.'' If ever a book of nature was to be both informative and exciting, this is it. ... A magnificent book for keeps.'
'This is wildlife presented honestly to children in all its brutal splendour.'
' This exquisite picture book is a poetic tribute to the beauty of nature. . . MacCarthy expertly uses a palette of greys, blues, greens, browns, silvers and purples to create a symphony of movement. . . This book will make a pleasant addition to school library shelves. It is a worthy candidate for a Greenaway shortlist. Students will enjoy the illustrations and the rhythmical sounds of alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia.'
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 3 to 6 years
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 300 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84780-283-5 (9781847802835)
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Person
PATRICIA MACCARTHY has illustrated many books for children, including The Tiniest Mermaid (Little Tiger Press), Dewdrop Babies (Random House), The Perfect Princess (Templar), and several picture books by Margaret Mahy - Boom, Baby, Boom, Boom!, 17 Kings, 42 Elephants, and Down the Dragon's Tongue (Frances Lincoln). Her books have been published extensively in the US and Europe. For the Wilderness series Patricia is working in a mixed medium of pen and black ink, and watercolour pastels and pencil-crayons. She lives in Brighton.