Little Rabit Waits for the Moon

by Beth Shoshan, Stephanie Peel (Illustrations)

Join Little Rabbit as he waits for the moon to come so night will fall and he can go to sleep. Little readers will love this bedtime story with soft, gentle illustrations, soothing text, and imaginative plot, and parents will love reading along with their children. Ideal for children just learning to read.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Animals

11 pages, Board Book

First published July 15, 2011

About the author

Beth Shoshan was born in Brighton. She never seemed destined to be 
a children's writer, after all she 
had failed English Composition.
 But everything changed when she
 was challenged by Meadowside 
to write the most inappropriate
 children's book imaginable - it
 should contain sweets, explosions 
and arcane English words. She 
did, and Smidge became an instant 
best-seller. Now with over 30 titles 
to her name, Beth has become one
 of the most successful children's
 authors of the past few years.

- excerpted from Meadowside Children's Books

Reviews

[Gabrielle Palmisano · Rating 1 out of 5]

Although this book had great illustrations I wasn’t much of a fan of the story itself. The illustrations were painted first then scanned in and some illustrations were even isolated from others.
Little Rabbit is all alone in the forest. He wonders when the moon will be back so he starts asking other animals. When Rabbit isn’t satisfied with the answer he is given, he moves on to the next. Little Rabbit ends up growing too tired to ever realize the moon came back to watch him at night. The theme for this book is to keep hope and not to give up. Yes Rabbit did give up by falling asleep, but he was dreaming about the moon coming back to him.

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lovely story. I prefer when children's books put the art on both sides. This has the art on one page and text on a white background on the other. So there are lovelier books with better stories out there.

[Nel · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really disliked this book. Son wasn't fussed about it either way.

[Aarvik · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an okay book for Aarvik.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an adorable storybook for a youngster for bedtime. Anyone can relate to rabbit whom is waiting on the moon that has tried their hardest to stay awake to see something. Rabbit is trying so hard to wait on the moon, wondering where it is or how long it will take to see. So he starts asking the flower, or the hill, or the wind etc but when the moon finally comes out rabbit is fast asleep. But the moon watches over him anyhow.

[Maura · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very cute story about a little rabbit worried he needs the moon to watch over him to sleep and his journey to find it. This was our night story I picked out for my baby girl. She really seemed to like it as she cooed and smiled the entire time I read it to her. The illustrations are simplistic, but very nicely done. A quick little read that is good for small children.

[Rebecca Mullins · Rating 3 out of 5]

Little Rabbit is tired, but he wants to wait for the moon before falling asleep. So, he asks all of the things around him when the moon will come out. None of them know. So, he falls asleep while waiting for the moon, and of course it eventually comes out. This book is good for 1-2 grade.

[Joshua Piorier Sr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! I'm shocked that no one has reviewed or even added this book to their lists! What a fun little story this is. READ IT!

[Ubalstecha]

Cute little story. Too wordy for my one year old, but cute.

[Tami · Rating 4 out of 5]

100 stars because we have not read this in a long time and I love it. the story is so sad because he didn't stay up for the moon. 🎁🐎🦄🍓🍌🍉🇦🇺🇨🇦🐴🦓🐱🐯🍌🍓🍉 hope. we read this book to hope when she was little. I love this book.

[Avonlea Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

We read this one today with “The Moon Might Be Milk,” which went together really well and has put us right into the mood for a moon-themed tea party with some sugar cookies! Maybe this would be an extra special way for celebrating a lunar event?

About the book: I felt like the text was the highlight of this book rather than the illustrations (although they are cute). Like “The Moon Might Be Milk,” this one has a soothing, poetic nature to it, which we both like and makes good bedtime reading. This one is great for getting a child to think about how the moon’s presence affects us on earth and everything around us. My daughter and I have been talking a lot lately about gravity and, in particular, how the moon’s gravity affects the tides, so this book opened up even more conversation about our relationship to the moon - and how the earth’s movements create our night and day.