I'll See You in My Dreams - Hardcover

Jukes, Mavis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037581518X ISBN 13: 9780375815188

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2002

Synopsis

Newbery Honor winner Mavis Jukes’s highly praised picture book is reissued
with a new jacket and in a more appealing trim size.

“With the brilliant colors of a wild sunset sky, this picture book expresses the exhilaration of flying a plane and connects that power with a sense of fragility and grief. A small girl, like Amelia Earhart, takes off in a biplane, like a moth at dusk, and skywrites ‘I love you’ and ‘goodbye’ in the clouds as a message for her terminally ill young uncle in his hospital room. But then it turns out her flight is imaginary; she’s really a passenger, with her mother, on a big, crowded jet on her way to visit the hospital. . . . Without sentimentality or falseness, the spare, echoing words make death a part of the ‘rise and fall’ of life.”—Booklist, Starred

About this title

About the Author:

Mavis Jukes is the author of Like Jake and Me, a Newbery Honor Book. Her other books include No One Is Going to Nashville, Blackberries in the Dark, and It’s a Girl Thing.

Stacey Schuett is the author-illustrator of Somewhere in the World Right Now and the illustrator of many highly acclaimed books.

From Publishers Weekly:

Strong, centered and free from fear, a girl imagines herself as a skywriter bidding farewell to her dying uncle, a former pilot, in I'll See You in My Dreams (1993) by Mavis Jukes, illus. by Stacey Schuett an unsentimental look at the rituals that attend the passage of life.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 037581518X
• ISBN 13: 9780375815188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Schuett Stacey