I'll Catch the Moon

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The gifted author-photographer of One Hot Summer Day uses her photo-collage images to take her readers on a dream-like journey of discovery. The moon floats outside a young girl's window, shiny as a new quarter. And she imagines building a ladder to outer space, going up and up until she can hold it in her hands. Full-color photos.

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Overview

The gifted author-photographer of One Hot Summer Day uses her photo-collage images to take her readers on a dream-like journey of discovery. The moon floats outside a young girl's window, shiny as a new quarter. And she imagines building a ladder to outer space, going up and up until she can hold it in her hands. Full-color photos.

A child imagines going into outer space, catching the moon, and taking it on an around-the-world adventure.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
A girl's fantasy of having a play date with the moon remains oddly earthbound in Crews's (One Hot Summer Day) latest photo-collage book. The author/artist melds oft-heard musings about the moon into an uninspired text, as her protagonist recalls the man in the moon, a man on the moon "and a cow jumping over it" and acts out her dream of climbing a ladder into outer space to get a closer look. Crews's collages, so vibrant in her previous book, appear hokey and staged here, and she combines photos without the sensitivity to scale shown in the similarly conceived The Ring (reviewed above). Photographs of the child are often fuzzy, and the girl's large full-color presence often clashesrather than contrastswith the sharp, monochromatic blue-black nighttime backgrounds. Ages 4-up. (May)
School Library Journal
PreS-KUsing photographs of the moon and of a city's buildings imposed against the dark-blue night sky, Crews creates a mood piece in which a child fantasizes about climbing to the moon and circling the Earth. The photographic collages are stunning and the youngster is charming. She compares the celestial object to the shiny quarter she holds in her hands; remembers the cow that jumped over the moon; fancies the sky filled with helicopters, astronauts, clouds, and comets; and imagines herself climbing a great wooden ladder into the realm of night and space before returning to home and family. The book has striking visual images and, while there is no strong story line, it does capture and convey a child's power to imagine and wonder. Read aloud by adults, it may encourage discussion of children's ideas about the world and their part in it.Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
Kirkus Reviews
A girl's wish to build a ladder from her New York City apartment to the moon is vividly brought to life through ingenious photo-collages. Surprisingly, the photos heighten the fantasy element by grounding the story in the realistic world, a nocturnal cityscape of "Honk, blink, stop, go." The pictures become more fanciful as the girl rises above her environment, the stars shining brighter than any Manhattanite is likely to witness. Occasionally, the outlines of the cutout shapes remind readers of the collage effect, temporarily dismantling the illusion that the girl is stepping through clouds. At the same time, the "crafted" nature of the illustrations may encourage readers' own artistic impulses to build ladders to the moon. In style and setting, this book is virtually a repeat of Crews's One Hot Summer Day (1995), but its star-drenched, dreamlike mood gives it a totally different emotional content.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780688141356
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 5/28/1996
  • Edition description: 1 ED
  • Pages: 40
  • Age range: 5 - 10 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.82 (w) x 11.30 (h) x 0.36 (d)

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