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1) Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Newbery Honor Book)

Author

Lin, Grace

Series

Starry River of the Sky volume 1

Appears on list

Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Voices 2024

Formats

Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A Time Magazine 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time selection!
A Reader’s Digest Best Children’s Book of All Time!
This stunning fantasy inspired by Chinese folklore is a companion novel to Starry River of the Sky and the New York Times bestselling and National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver
In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli...

2) If you were the moon

Author

Salas, Laura Purdie

Pub. Date

[2017]

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

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"If you were the moon, what would you do? You'd spin like a twilight ballerina and play dodgeball with space rocks! Find out more in this lyrical list poem accompanied by stunning illustrations."--

3) Max and the tag-along moon

Author

Cooper, Floyd

Pub. Date

c2013

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

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When Max leaves his grandfather's house, the moon follows him all the way home, just as Grandpa promised it would.

4) Hello, harvest moon

Author

Fletcher, Ralph J

Pub. Date

2003

Physical Desc

32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

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Poetic prose describes a full autumn moon and the magical effect it has on the earth, plants, animals, and people around it.

5) A kite for Moon

Author

Yolen, Jane

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Desc

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

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A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. moon landing.

6) I took the moon for a walk

Author

Curtis, Carolyn

Pub. Date

2004

Physical Desc

[32] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

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A boy takes the moon for a walk through his neighborhood.

7) The moon is going to Addy's house

Author

Pearle, Ida

Pub. Date

[2015]

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustratios ; 22 x 31 cm

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The moon follows Addy all over the city before finally settling in at her house for bedtime.

8) Lena's sleep sheep: a going-to-bed book

Author

Lobel, Anita

Pub. Date

[2013]

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

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After Lena's parents tuck her into bed, a conventional scenario gives way to a humorous fantasy. Needing help to fall asleep, she bids her wooly friends to come out. "I'm ready to count you now," says the curly haired girl. But the sheep are frightened by the round monster in the window (the full moon, pictured making a grotesque face) and hide under Lena's bed. At her suggestion, they dress up in costumes so the moon will not know you are sheep....

9) Little Moon Dog

Author

Ward, Helen

Pub. Date

2007

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

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Little Moon Dog plays with the mischievous fairies who come to tour the moon, but he later realizes that the Man in the Moon is his true friend.

10) The Moon's first friends: how the Moon met the astronauts from Apollo 11

Author

Hill, Susanna Leonard

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.

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High up in the sky, the Moon has spent her whole life watching the happenings of Earth below, from dinosaurs roaming to planes taking flight, hoping for a visitor, until one day in 1969 when a spaceship soars from Earth. Includes Earth timeline and a history of space exploration.

11) Come back, Moon

Author

Kherdian, David

Pub. Date

[2013]

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm

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A sleepless bear hides the moon, much to the displeasure of his forest animal friends who miss dancing under its light.

12) I really want to fly to the Moon!

Author

Ziefert, Harriet

Series

Really Bird stories volume 3
Really Bird story volume 3

Pub. Date

2022.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm

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Really Bird really wants to fly to the moon. So he and his friends Cat and Pup use the rocket in city park for the trip. It will take patience, teamwork, and imagination to make it all the way. Will Really Bird and his friends reach the Moon?

13) Bilby moon

Author

Spurling, Margaret

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

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Each night when Little Bilby leaves her burrow, she looks up to greet the moon. And each night the moon looks down and smiles. But then one night the moon doesn't smile. A piece of the moon is missing. Little Bilby's quest for the missing moon takes her on a journey of discovery and wonder.

14) Many moons

Author

Thurber, James

Pub. Date

1943.

Physical Desc

47 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

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Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's one wish.

15) Starry river of the sky

Author

Lin, Grace

Series

Starry River of the Sky volume 2

Appears on list

Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Voices 2024

Formats

Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

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From bestselling author Grace Lin comes the companion to the Newbery Honor winner Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and the National Book Award finalist When the Sea Turned to Silver. The moon is missing from the remote Village of Clear Sky, but only a young boy named Rendi seems to notice! Rendi has run away from home and is now working as a chore boy at the village inn. He can't help but notice the village's peculiar inhabitants and their problems. ...

16) The moon might be milk

Author

Shulman, Lisa

Pub. Date

c2007

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

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A young girl asks her animal friends what they think the moon is made of, and her grandmother proves that each theory is partly correct. Includes recipe.

17) The night the moon fell =: La noche que se cayó la luna

Author

Mora, Pat

Pub. Date

c2000

Physical Desc

[30] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.

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When a gust from her grandfather's blowgun causes Luna to tumble from the sky and fall into the ocean, the little fishes help her rise once again, in an updated retelling of a traditional Mopan Maya myth from Belize.