Half a Moon and One Whole Star
by Crescent Dragonwagon
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The summer night is full of wonderful sounds and scents as Susan falls asleep.Tags
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The singsong poetry and gorgeous illustrations made this book a bedtime favorite of ours for years. Its message of hope, texture and richness in the experience of a single night and morning, is subtle and soothing.
Given the repetitions of this book, I think it would make for an excellent read aloud. That said, I'd use it in my classroom. I think that it would also be an interesting read for students so that's another reason to include it in my classroom.
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Crescent Dragonwagon is the author of more than 50 books, seven of them cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning Passionate Vegetarian. She has grown more than 31 bean varieties and once had a cat named Beanblossom. She writes the blog Nothing Is Wasted on the Writer and lives in Westminster West, Vermont.
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- Original publication date
- 1986
- Dedication
- For Susan Sims Smith, awakening. -C.D.
For my granddaughter, Gloria Nicole. -J.P. - First words
- Up above the earth so far
Hang half a moon and one whole star
Hang one whole star and half a moon:
Nighttime will be coming soon. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So sleep, Susan, sleep.
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- Genres
- Children's Books, Picture Books, Poetry
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ8.3 .D77 .H — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 236
- Popularity
- 138,256
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.70)
- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
- 10
- ASINs
- 1
