author/illustrator: Joy Slaats/Ralph Zabel
ages: 8+
120 pages
23 x 29 cm
Hardcover
Boycott
The Mountain Keeper
About this book
A grand and moving picture book about courage, loss, nature, and the stories we tell to protect what is fragile.
Tara lives at the foot of a haunted mountain. No one dares to climb it anymore, not since the cave guide disappeared there years ago. No one, except Tara’s grandfather. Every day, Tara watches him make his way up the mountain. And every day, she dreams of going with him.
But when Grandpa does not return one evening and the mist begins to creep threateningly towards the village, Tara can no longer wait. She crosses the bridge and climbs the forbidden mountain.
★ 2026 D-Pictus 100 outstanding books