Ever night Nightlight sprinkled dreamsand over the MiM and sang him this lullaby:Īnd as long as Nightlight watched over him he was safe from nightmares. Their ship their home the moon clipper sailed from one peaceful planet to another.
And he had a guardian named Nightlight a devoted friend who watched over him. The moonboot crew whistled jolly "toot toot's" and the giant glowworms provided light for him to read. He was the first guardian, and his story begins before the dark times, for he was born during the golden age, a time of hope, happiness and a time when dreams could come true. But those worries were unfounded, this and other picture books we have read by William Joyce have all been amazing! This story tells the tale of the Man in the Moon or MiM for short.
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.First I must state that my children and I love the movie Rise of the Guardians, so when we started reading books about some of the characters there was a little trepidation, at least on my part. 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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