Children's Fiction Emigration & Immigration
The Moon's Journey
- Publisher
- Red Deer Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2024
- Category
- Emigration & Immigration, Post-Confederation (1867-)
- Recommended Age
- 6 to 8
- Recommended Grade
- 1 to 3
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780889957473
- Publish Date
- Nov 2024
- List Price
- $23.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780889957701
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
Set in the 1950's, this moving new picture book follows a young family as they travel across the ocean to a new home in a new land — Canada.
Based on a true story of a family's journey recorded at The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, The Moon's Journey follows Faith as she leaves the only place she has ever called home to travel with her family across the ocean to a new home in Canada. Faith is very nervous about this strange new place that will become her home and can only hope that her friend, the night moon, will still be watching over her every night no matter where she and her family call home.
Royalties from sales of THE MOON'S JOURNEY will be donated to The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.
About the authors
Beryl Young is the author of the best-selling young adult novel Wishing Star Summer (Raincoast, 2001). The book was on the Victoria Times Colonist BC Children’s Bestseller list for twenty-six weeks, was named to Our Choice book by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, and received nominations for the Red Cedar Award (BC), the Chocolate Lily Award (BC) and the Diamond Willow Award (SK). Young is a member of the Federation of BC Writers, the Children’s Writers and Illustrators of BC, the Writers Union of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Authors, Illustrators and Performers. In the autumn of 2009, she published, to great acclaim, Charlie: A Home Child’s Life in Canada (Key Porter). She has a passion for elephants and for India, where she has travelled three times in an unsuccessful search for her real life pen pal. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Beryl has three children and four grandchildren.
Sean Huang is an artist and illustrator from Regina, Saskatchewan. His picture books include Molly Misses Nainai and I Am Not a Ghost: The Canadian Pacific Railway.
