Reading Level 2.3

This story is about a little girl who wants the moon. Most children at some point in their life, look at the sky and wish they coudl grab the moon. This story makes grabbing the moon possible, as the dad uses a long ladder on top of a mountain to reach it. The book shows how the moon looks as the earth rotates (without actually explaining it) by showing the moon as a whole, to a cresent, and back to a whole. THe book as great pictures that flap open to larger pictures. ( )

Grade Level: 2
Eric Carle write very good books for children. I feel like children could relate to this because what child has not thought about playing with the moon. In this story Monica ask her dad for the moon, and he finds a ladder and climbs all the way to moon, when he gets there he explains his daugther would like to play with him and he says when I grow smaller you can come back and get me. The moon grew smaller and smaller and finally Monica had the moon. They played together but he contuined to grow smaller until he disappered. Then one night she looked in the sky and saw a tiny silver moon back in the sky. This book has alot of pictures and popups except these are pull downs. Theteacherscorner.net has a great lesson plan to use with Eric Carle stroies.

Child asks father for the moon, father does his best to grant the request. ( )

Evie did not like this book until around age 1. She likes the fold-out pages. ( )