Going the Moose Way Home (cover)

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Illustrated by Donald Carrick. Scribners, 1988.
Minnesota Book Award 1989

Stunning watercolors combine with a wry year-in-the-life-of-a-moose storyline for an involving tale to read aloud. Moose "is tall, a hill on hoofs, and thin stork legs" and the lugubrious, lovable protagonist of these nine linked tales. He has many encounters with his forest friends and a wide variety of humorous adventures. Empathic and outgoing, Moose wants to share his Christmas dinner of frozen blueberries and lily pads with lonesome cows; he asks a skunk to be his valentine; he helps the Easter Rabbit deliver his eggs; he celebrates his birthday creatively. Latimer's language is vividly descriptive and is wonderful to read aloud. Carrick's evocative watercolors convey the comic exaggeration of the tales; in fact, one wishes the book's design had allowed for more illustrations. This pleasing collaboration should find a wide audience.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, September 30, 1988.

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GOING THE MOOSE WAY HOME
WHEN MOOSE WAS YOUNG
Elizabeth/J R Jordan
Untitled 10/J R Jordan
Untitled 15/J R Jordan
Untitled 14/J R Jordan
THE IRISH PIPER
FOX UNDER FIRST BASE
Young Children/J R Jordan
Young Children 2/J R Jordan
Riverside Park/J R Jordan
Untitled 4/J R Jordan
Untitled 5/J R Jordan
Untitled 3/J R Jordan
Untitled 9/J R Jordan
Untitled 7/J R Jordan
JAMES BEAR
JAMES BEAR AND THE GOOSE GATHERING
SNAIL AND BUFFALO
MOOSE AND FRIENDS