"The warm night-wind tosses our hair. The wind chimes stir. And we all dance, barefooted. Over and over the grass. We climb the tree just to be in a tree at night."

Here is a child's exhilaration and enchantment with the loveliness of summer nights, with the magic of moonlight.

The goldfish play with the moonfish in the lily pond, the fireflies come from the woods, and a giant moth flies by on his search for moonflowers. At this time the call of "Children, oh children" from the house is meaningless, for there are no children present, only Moon Jumpers.

A Tree Is Nice, Mrs. Udry's first book, was illustrated by Marc Simont, and won the 1957 Caldecott Award. For The Moon Jumpers, Maurice Sendak has painted some of his most glorious pictures, catching the moon's illumination of the grass, the house, and the dancing children.

From the dust jacket