{"product_id":"if-the-moon","title":"If the Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e is a bedtime poem by Matthew Burgess, illustrated by Matthew Forsythe, about the crossing from awake to asleep. The lines are spare and incantatory, each one turning on the word if, carrying a child out of a dark room where the worries have been getting bigger and toward drifting, dreaming, and the latch of sleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quilt is where the words and the pictures meet. Its squares open into an ocean, a raft, a dinosaur, all of it painted in the quilt's own colours, in watercolour, gouache and coloured pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurgess is a poet who teaches literature and creative writing at Brooklyn College and spent over twenty years running poetry programs in New York City public schools. Forsythe was born in Toronto and was lead designer on Adventure Time before making picture books, among them \u003cem\u003ePokko and the Drum\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003eAges 4–8\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Post Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46125695434799,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0072\/7285\/7647\/files\/IfTheMoon-1.jpg?v=1788523428","url":"https:\/\/www.parkette.ca\/products\/if-the-moon","provider":"Parkette.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}