Moondogs

The book talked about a little boy who wants to go to the moon and adopt a moon dog had an adventure on the moon. He mistakenly brings an earth dog on his spaceship and the earth dog saves his life when he was attacked by the giant man on the moon. The plot of the little boy got an adventure on the moon makes it become a fantasy story, which can not happen in the real life. The book has great illustrations and not too many sentences on each page, which can be a suitable choice for young readers. It can be used in reading class to generate students' imagination and in social study class to reflect the relationships between human and dogs

Willy Joe Jehosephat gazes at the moon every night hoping one day to be an astronaut. His parents hope to bring him back down to earth and think that a dog would help him but Willy insists that all he wants is a moondog. So Willy builds himself a spaceship and goes to the moon but finds that an abandoned dog has ended up in the spaceship with him. Willy was at first disappointed until the dog saved him from the monstrous man on the moon. Then Willy realized what dog was good for him.

Use with Pre-K to grade 2. Children will love the catchy rhyming story and vivid illustrations. The story is about a boy who really wants a moondog for a pet, so he goes into space to find one. When he gets there, he encounters a moon monster and is saved by a brown dog, who had also been eating rocket trash. The boy decides that he doesn't really need a moondog, and a regular brown dog is the perfect pet for him. Addresses ambition, desires, exploration, and love of pets. In the classroom, use for read alouds, astronomy lessons, and follow up with an astronomy activity.

Summary: This story is about a young boy who's parents think he needs a friend. They suggest he gets a dog and he knows just the place to get one. He wants to be an astronaut and loves looking at the moon, and he says that there are tons of moondogs there. He builds himself a spaceship to fly there, but without knowing a stray dog joins him. Once he gets to the moon he is attacked by the man on the moon and the stray dog ends up saving him. He decides to take him back and make him his pet instead of choosing one of the moondogs.
Genre Critique: This story is clearly a fantasy because it forces you to use your imagination. In real life a young boy could not build his own space ship and fly to the moon to pick out a dog from all the show more different types there. It makes you think up the setting because its not something that would happen in real life.
Character critique: In the story the parents of the young child could be considered as pretty flat and static characters. While they do serve a purpose in the story it is not a vital role that affects the plot of the book. They would be referred to as flat characters because of the lack of growth or change they show. They stay the same throughout the entire story. show less

In this science fiction picture book, a boy is told by his parents that it is time to get a dog. But he doesn't want any plain, earth dog. He wants a moondog! So he builds his spaceship, and flies it to the moon to get a moondog. While he was flying there, a stray dog must have gotten onboard on earth because it was eating all the boys food. The boy plans to leave the dog there, and hope the other moondogs will take him in. When the boy lands, he tells the moondogs that he is going to take one of them home. But right after that, the man on the moon comes in and attacks them. He grabs the boy and said he will eat any boy or dog that he catches. But then, the earth dog came to the rescue and scared the man on the moon away. The boy show more decides that he owes his life to that dog, so he decided to let him come home with him and to be his dog. show less

The illustrations in this book were done with oil paint and paper. This book is about a little boy who looks into space and dreams of going up there someday. His dad comes into his room one day and tells him he spends too much time alone, so he needs a dog to keep him company. Instead, the little boy says he wants a moondog and flies into space to pick the perfect one. He flies past stars and reaches the moon, but not without announcing his arrival. Suddenly, a huge monster enters the scene and grabs the little boy. A mangy earth dog saves the little boy from the monster and they fly home to earth. This book is fantasy because the little boy flies into space to search for moondogs, which isn't possible, but it is a story that is in a show more setting that is real. The age appropriateness for this book is 1-3. show less

Willy needs a friend, so he flys to space in his spaceship to get a moon dog. On the way he finds a dog from earth in his ship. Willy is not too happy because he wants a moon dog, but takes him along for the ride. When he finally gets to space he finds a whole bunch of moon dogs. Before he knew it a giant came and scooped him up. The other moon dogs ran away, but the dog from earth came and saved the day.