Holiday House Issues Mordicai Gerstein s Collaborative Finale By Sally Lodge | Jan 21, 2021
A moose, a goose, and a mouse ride a loose caboose to find the perfect house in
Moose, Goose, and Mouse, a picture book written by the late Mordicai Gerstein and illustrated by Gerstein and Jeff Mack. Released this month by Holiday House, the book has a bittersweet back story involving the collaborators’ chance meeting, a fast friendship between two kindred spirits, an unexpected working partnership, and a rewarding cap to a distinguished career for Gerstein, winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal for
Gerstein and Mack initially crossed paths at an event in Northampton, Mass., in 2009, the year after Mack had published his first solo work,