The Moon Book - Softcover

Gail Gibbons

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823413640 ISBN 13: 9780823413645

Publisher: Holiday House, 1997

Synopsis

Facts about the moon, including eclipses and its different phases.

About this title

About the Author:

Gail Gibbons has published close to fifty distinguished nonfiction titles with Holiday House. According to "The Washington Post", "Gail Gibbons has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." She lives in Vermont. Her website is www.gailgibbons.com

From Booklist:

Gr. 2^-4, younger for reading aloud. This fully illustrated introductory book offers young children information about the moon: its orbit and phases, its place in solar and lunar eclipses, its effect on Earth's oceans, moon exploration, and the legends the moon has inspired in various cultures. Written clearly yet without too much detail, the text moves along quickly. The pictures and diagrams deserve study, as they help readers visualize such concepts as how the moon moves in relation to the earth and the sun and why it seems to change shape. Gibbons uses a spacious format to vary page layout, presenting each facet of the moon's story with a large illustration or a series of smaller ones. Her colorful pictures of people observing the moon seem all the more brilliant against backgrounds of midnight blue. A fine resource for school and public library collections. Carolyn Phelan

About this edition

• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0823413640
• ISBN 13: 9780823413645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32