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. Throughout my final year of study at The Northern School of Art, I have been designing and. And while Nightlight has fun sailing icy winds and surfing clouds, he is also lonely without his friend Mim. This is the third book in his Guardians of Childhood picture book series, following The Man in the Moon and The Sandman, which introduces characters who, reassuringly, 'help watch over the children of Earth.' Joyces art lends itself beautifully to this sort of mythic tale, but in this one, the storys somewhat hard to follow, relying heavily.
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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