Tessa Takes Wing

Richard Jackson

Roaring Brook Press, Jul 24, 2018 - Juvenile Fiction - 40 pages

It’s almost morning and everyone’s asleep. Everyone except Tessa.

Quiet as a mouse, Tessa takes flight . . . UP . . . UP until she’s flying high above her crib. Her first stop: her sister Maggie’s blue elephant! Then, Maggie’s fire truck . . . and her polka-dot umbrella. But she better be quiet and quick before her daddy hears and stops all her fun!

Follow Tessa on a soaring adventure, one only she and the reader experience, as she flies even higher than she did yesterday, in Tessa Takes Wing, by veteran children’s book editor Richard Jackson with warm, inviting illustrations by Julie Downing.

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Tessa Takes Wing

User Review  - Publishers Weekly

Tessa wakes up just before dawn. “Up,” she says, as babies her age are wont to do. But when no one responds, the plump, round-faced Tessa doesn’t cry or pout. Instead, she sprouts a tiny pair of wings ...

About the author

Richard Jackson has been an editor/publisher of children’s books since 1962. He gave the May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture in 2005, the year of his official retirement, but is still working in 2016, the year his first picture book appeared: Have a Look, Says Book illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. He wrote In Plain Sight, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, which was published by Roaring Brook Press. He lives with his wife and near his grandchildren in Towson, Maryland.

Julie Downing has written and or illustrated over forty books for children, including The Night Before Christmas, Lullaby & Good Night, The Firekeeper's Son, and Nobody, which was published by Roaring Brook Press. She lives in San Francisco, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tessa Takes Wing
• Author: Richard Jackson
• Illustrated by: Julie Downing
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press, 2018
• ISBN: 1250215110, 9781250215116
• Length: 40 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings; Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play