Skywatcher

Name: Skywatcher
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Jamie Hogan
ISBN: 9781666527759

Author: Jamie Hogan

Narrator: Sneha Mathan

Unabridged: 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 02/01/2022

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Lifestyles, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

Tamen longs to see the stars, but none are visible in the light-polluted sky above the fire escape of his urban apartment building. Even in the neighborhood park, the stars are hidden by city lights. This is a story about love and sacrifice: Tamen’s mom, a night-shift nurse, finds a way to take him camping. For one magical night on the shore of a wilderness pond, the Milky Way in all its glory belongs to them.

About Jamie Hogan

Jamie Hogan is a critically acclaimed author and illustrator. She has published illustrations in newspapers, periodicals, and numerous award-winning children’s books, including Island Birthday, which won the 2015 Lupine Award, and Rickshaw Girl, which was named one of the Best 100 Books by the New York Public Library and won the Jane Addams Peace Association Award and the Maine Library Association’s Lupine Award. She lives with her husband and daughter on an island in Casco Bay.

About Sneha Mathan

Sneha Mathan is a voice actor and audiobook narrator. Her audiobook work has received several Earphones awards, and she is a two-time Audie Award finalist. Although she spent much of her childhood traveling and living in other parts of the world (including India and Africa), she is now based in Seattle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amanda [Novel Addiction]

Listened to the audiobook of this, provided by the publisher and Libro.fm's ALC program for Librarians. The narrator does a fantastic job with this story, such a soothing voice. You definitely lose some of the magic without the illustrations, but the story is still beautiful.......more

Goodreads review by Lynn

A mom takes her child on a surprise camping trip after his persistent questions about the stars that he cannnot see. Away from the city lights, the stars light up the sky as the two watch and wonder. Back matter includes an Author's Note with more information on elements introduced in the story such......more

Goodreads review by Mary

In the heart of the city, it can be difficult to experience the totality of night. Tamen loves comic books, his favorite of which is one called Skywatcher, whose hero navigates the stars. Looking out his window at night, Tamen laments the fact that he cannot see the stars and wonders what Skywatcher......more