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I Took the Moon for a Walk
- A Children's Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
- Illustrated by internationally acclaimed artist Alison Jay
- Contains many fascinating facts about the moon
- Gift market -- Charming and nostalgic illustrations make this a book to treasure
- Set in lyrical rhyme with language that will encourage reader confidence
- Tightly linked illustration and text allows for easy follow-al...more
- Illustrated by internationally acclaimed artist Alison Jay
- Contains many fascinating facts about the moon
- Gift market -- Charming and nostalgic illustrations make this a book to treasure
- Set in lyrical rhyme with language that will encourage reader confidence
- Tightly linked illustration and text allows for easy follow-al...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
March 1st 2003
by Barefoot Books
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This is my (and my son's) favorite bed-time book! It's the perfect lyrical, sleepy book for right before lights-out.
Our summer school theme is NASA and space this year. So, I am teaching fiction and non-fiction about the moon, stars, and aliens. We have lots and lots of cool plans. For example, we are designing our own life-sized aliens, having spaceship races (decorated Frisbee), writing poems about what the moon is really made of: green cheese, milk, white chocolate, a pearl... Their ideas are vast and fun. As a part of summer school, we are reading tons and tons of moon, star, and alien related books. I'll...more
I love Alison Jay's cracked painted illustrations with all the tiny details, but had only read her alphabet book and "If Kisses Were Colors," so I thought I'd give this book a try. This was a cute rhyming bedtime book about a little boy who took the moon for a walk and it followed him home to shed light as the boy went to bed. My favorite illustration was the one about the dew on the grass that the moon called forth, as Jay makes the grass look like it is singing, and the bugs that are crawling...more
So awhile ago I went and found all the bilingual Chinese/English books I could on the library catalogue and reserved them all sight unseen. I found this one in English and simplified Chinese. This was not the greatest kids book. There were far too many obscure words and it felt very English just translated (which it was). What was quite interesting was the sentence structure. It was really interesting to see how things were laid out, and then compare it with the English. So I think it was helpfu...more
I love this book! I love the concept of the child and the moon out walking, and the meter of the verse is so smooth and musical; the illustrations are also fun and interesting. This is one of my daughter's and my favorites. I've used this to demonstrate meter/verse in my AP Literature class, too!
The boy in this book takes the moon for a walk one night and sees all of the events that happen at night. The truth is the moon is everywhere we go at night so we feel like we are taking the moon for a walk. I would use this book to begin an introduction in a lesson over the moon.
This is a book illustrated by Alison Jay, so that the pictures are gorgeous hardly needs to be said.
The simple rhyming text complements the pictures very nicely, thank you. This book would work very well as a bedtime book for babies as well as young preschoolers.
The simple rhyming text complements the pictures very nicely, thank you. This book would work very well as a bedtime book for babies as well as young preschoolers.
I loved this book! The illustrations were excellent and the story was really fun. I really like that in the back of the book there is more information on the moon. This would be a great book to read at the beginning of a science lesson about the moon.
I'm excited to have discovered this book for a couple of reasons. First, I like the science and literature connection. Second, I found it as a bilingual book at www.languagelizard.com. You can choose English and any of 24 (!) other languages.
One of my favorite kids' books. Curtis captures the magical way we look at the world when we are young, and the poetry is not sing-songy or trite but lyrical and image-driven.
I am so attracted to childrens books with great illustrations...this one has great illustrations and a nice story. Good explanation of the phases of the moon at the end.
Love, Love, Love this book!!! Beautiful poem with beautiful pictures. This is a family favorite, great for bedtime. Highly recommend!
A sweet & poetic bedtime story. We read this every night along with Wynken, Blyknen & Nod. Beautiful pictures.
This was fun! I liked the art and my daughter even noticed that the moon was missing a shoe on one of the pages...
This is a great read aloud to cuddle up and get sleepy with. The illustrations even look dreamlike.
My all time favorite kids book. Love it. I dont look forward to the kids outgrowing it.
Cute story and the back is filled with all kinds of info about the moon!
Lovely like a Cocteau Twins record. Also reminds me of Calvino's Cosmicomics.
Great prose and awesome illustrations once again by Alison Jay, magical.
Ethan's absolute favorite book! Reads it every night before bed.
Rhythmic, rhyming, delightful with beautiful illustration.
A lyrical book that begs to be read out loud.
Beautiful and lyrical. Thanks MS heims.
Current children's book favorite.
Liked the pics and rhyming
Great choice Mel!
This is a really neat book. I love the idea of taking the moon for a walk...it certainly feels as though the moon follows you when you are a young imaginitive mind who is wandering in the early evening. This is a great story with beautiful art and lots of information about night animals and such. Great for all ages, my 2 year old loves it, so do I.
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This is a cute book about a boy who goes for a walk with the moon. It is great for ryming and sequencing because it is set to ryme and also their are lots of places the boy and moon go that they can sequence.
I wanted to like this one but I found the text incredibly awkward to read aloud.
It is a 28 page poem that consists of seven stanzas each with four lines...three that rhyme and the fourth is the refrain.
(a a a b, a a a b)
The illustrations were cool---alkyd oil paint on paper with a crackling varnish...
It is a 28 page poem that consists of seven stanzas each with four lines...three that rhyme and the fourth is the refrain.
(a a a b, a a a b)
The illustrations were cool---alkyd oil paint on paper with a crackling varnish...
The story is lyrical and easy to read. It's a nice combination of reality reading (seeing one's glow in the water) and fantasy (the boy and moon sharing a night-time flight) that will appeal to all readers.
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