How to be heard by the family is Jack’s dilemma in this amusing story about a little boy who goes on a big adventure. Jack’s noisy family don’t ever seem to hear what he says so, when he takes off for the top of the mountain, no one knows that he has gone. How can Jack get safely home again? Luckily, just when he most needs it, Jack finds he has got a great big voice and it is big enough for him to be able to tell his family all about it when he gets back home...
Jack is very quiet. His busy, rumbustious family is very noisy. Sometimes it seems as if no one really hears what he has to say - or is it that they are just not listening properly? It takes the help of an imaginary friend and encounters with a lost wolf cub and a terrifying grizzly bear for Jack to grow in confidence and find his own voice.
Jess Meserve was born in America and grew up there and in the UK. She graduated with both a BA and an MA in Illustration from Edinburgh College of Art. Since then she has done a number of highly praised fiction jackets, including At the Firefly Gate by Linda Newbery, and black and white inside illustrations for fiction, including Keith Gray's Smarties Award Winning title The Runner (Random House) and Drawing Together (Walker). She moved to Canada in 2004, and is now living in Edmonton, Alberta
