Sophie Sheppard's
The Moon's Tear: A Desert Night's Dream
follows Raven in his journey to find a companion for the Moon, who is traveling alone across the empty night sky.
Enlisting Child for help, Raven must travel with his friend high into the mountains to retrieve a precious gift from the belly of a trout and fill the night with light. Quiet and dreamlike, Sheppard's illustrations perfectly compliment a tale of loneliness and how it is conquered by friendship.
The Moon's Tear
is a contemporary legend that will delight and entertain anyone with the courage to dream.
Northern Nevada, a landscape reflected in much of
, is home to the Massacre Rim Dark Skies Sanctuary. One of only fourteen sites designated as IDA International Dark Sky Sanctuaries in the entire world, Massacre Rim Dark Skies Sanctuary is a "land that has an exceptional or distinguished quality of starry nights and a nocturnal environment that is protected [and located] in a very remote location with few (if any) nearby threats to the quality of its dark night skies" (darksky.org).