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The Guardians of Childhood

Academy Award winner William Joyce imagines the origins of the icons of our childhoods—Santa, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost, and more—in this beautifully illustrated picture book series.

Latest Book in Series

In the first book of a multibook series, find out how a round, jolly baby became the great white hope of the Milky Way—and ringleader of the Guardians of Childhood.

Up there in the sky.
Don’t you see him?
No, not the moon.
The Man in the Moon.

He wasn’t always a...

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