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As they drive along in the dark, a child watches the full moon follow the family car all the way home
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From School Library Journal
PreSchool-K--Goodnight Moon graduates may enjoy this highly descriptive account of a young girl's trip home, accompanied by an omnipresent full moon. The child narrates, and the poetic text and observations are occasionally out of keeping with her age (four or five): "Now the moon rolls along telephone wires. It skips from wire to wire without losing its balance. Underneath, its reflection forms a net that moves across the grass, across the river and the farmer's pond." Watercolors depict a romanticized moonlit landscape, competently executed but somewhat generic in appearance; the faces of the people are less successful. Grandmother looks definitely goofy, while the golden-haired girl's expression is sometimes cloyingly sweet or doll-like. Despite these flaws, this chronicle of the moon's mysterious ability to follow one home is intriguing enough to capture and hold the imaginations of young children. --Ruth Smith, Chicago Pub. Lib.
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From Publishers Weekly
Inviting imagery distinguishes this simple story about a child returning by car with her parents from a trip to Gramma and Grampa's. It's late, "after my bedtime," and the child fights sleep to watch as the moon follows the car on the journey home. Heckman creates playful poetry out of the mundane: "The moon rolls along telephone wires"; "In the distance, dark wooded hills stand at attention. Tall black trees salute." But Young's illustrations--her picture book debut--undercut Heckman's attempts to locate mystery in ordinary scenes. Although her pictures are composed well, they are flooded in otherworldly hues--chiefly, astral violets and blue-greens. The contrast with Heckman's prose becomes especially intrusive when the narrator observes that "the moon has washed all color from the earth and hidden it away." Ages 4-6.
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- PublisherAtheneum
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0689315651
- ISBN 13 9780689315657
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages30
- IllustratorMary O'Keefe Young
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