Jude's Moon

by Nancy Guettier, Tina Cash Walsh (Illustrator)

Overview

Nighttime is the best time for a boy and his best friend in this charming tale from the author of Circus in the Sky and Mermaids on Mars.
 
Jude’s Moon is a delightful story of a little boy who is fascinated by the moon. He believes he is the only one who can see it, so he is always so excited to point it out to his mom. “There’s the moon!” he shouts with glee every time he sees it. One day Jude is confused when the moon changes shape. He thinks someone has stolen his moon and replaced it with a croissant. When he learns it is a crescent moon, he is even more curious to learn how it changes shapes. This story is a fun and easy way to educate children on the phases of the moon.
 
“I recommend this book to kids that love science, teachers that want to teach their class about moon phases and parents that love to read with their kids.” —5 Girls Book Reviews
 
“In Jude’s Moon, Jude loves the moon so much that he believes he is the one who hung it in the sky. Throughout the story, Jude examines the phases of the moon, as well as fun facts about the sun.” —MySocialGoodNews.com
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614489658
Publisher:	Morgan James Publishing
Publication date:	09/10/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	14 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 Months to 11 Years

About the Author

Nancy Guettier is an emerging author and publisher of children’s books. She is also the Vice President of Visual Merchandising for PotterybarnKids and Pbteen where she has worked for 12 years creating dream rooms for her customers. Working in the kids and baby industry for over 20 years Nancy wanted to use her creative skills and to educate kids through her whimsical stories. Nancy is also a mother of three beautiful children who inspire her everyday to write and share her stories with kids everywhere.
Tina Cash-Walsh is an illustrator, textile designer, product designer and teacher. She works with watercolors, acyrlics, pencils, Adobe Illustrator and photoshop. She loves to create images that reflect the lighter side of life. She treasures and is grateful what she does, and hopes that she can make peoples’ lives a bit brighter with her illustrations. She and her wonderful husband live an adventurous life, near the ocean and mountains in California.

Read an Excerpt

CHAPTER 1

Every day around noon, Jude woke from his nap and rushed from his bedroom, full of excitement.

He ran outside, spotted the moon and shouted with glee, "Mama, come see! I found the moon!"

He thought he was the only kid in the world who could see the moon during the daytime.

He loved the moon so much, he called it Jude's moon — his very own magical balloon.

Jude also loved how the moon and the sun shared the sky.

He knew that sharing was caring — something he learned from Mama.

Jude enjoyed seeing how the sun and moon changed the day to night, and night back to a new day.

It was fun to see how they played and glowed on everyone like big flashlights.

He sat and wondered and whispered to himself, "How did they get up there?"

One day Jude was playing in the yard with his big brother Julian. Julian lost his ball down the street, so Jude gave his brother his own ball.

His Mama was so proud she exclaimed, "Jude hung the moon." Jude's face lit up and his smile was so big it actually outshone the sun.

This is when his imagination started having fun.

"I hung the moon!" Jude shouted with amazement, as he ran to his bedroom to think.

"It must be the big ladder ... is that what I used to hang the big moon?" All this wonder made Jude tired and he fell into a slumber.

When he woke he felt proud of his accomplishment of hanging the moon. He ran out of his bedroom to go and greet the moon.

Jude looked up at the sky and gasped, "Who took my moon?

It doesn't look like my best friend, shaped big and round like a balloon! It looks more like a banana."

"That's not a banana," said his big brother Julian, "It's a crescent moon!"

"A what?" Jude asked.

"A croissant, like the breakfast bread?"

Jude needed to take a closer look so he ran to get the big ladder. He climbed and climbed as high as he could reach, but the big bright sun shined in his face.

He squinted hard and said, "Aha, it's the sun, it's casting a shadow on the moon, turning my big balloon into a croissant!"

Julian said, "No Jude, it's a crescent moon, not a croissant moon. But you are almost right about the sun's shadow on the moon.

We're actually seeing the sun's light on the moon. The earth and moon do a dance around the sun, while the sun shines on different portions of the moon, making new shapes for us to see.

That's what we call the phases of the moon."

Jude was bubbling with excitement to learn more about the new phrase, "Phases of the moon."

He pictured it as a dance with the earth, moon and sun.

Julian said, "Exactly, it's like the earth and the moon doing ring-a-round the rosie with the sun.

Or like a giant clock in the sky and each quarter the moon goes through new phases."

New moon and full moon first quarter then third, and waning and waxing the phases in between.

This lunar dance goes on above us magically unseen.

When it appears the moon is growing it is called waxing, and when it appears it's getting smaller it's called waning.

Gibbous is more than half, but less than fully illuminated.

It takes several days for the moon to change from one phase to the next.

The day was ending and it was getting darker, but Jude's moon illuminated him.

Jude howled with delight and glee, "Now I know why Mama's so proud of me!"

"Yes, Jude," Mama said.

"You hung the moon.

Now head upstairs and go to bed!"

Jude climbed into bed and looked out the window of his room, knowing his good friend the moon would shine a light on him like his very own nightlight.

"Good night my moon, I'll see you at noon," he whispered, and fell sound asleep.

Jude was so excited to learn what his mama meant about him hanging the moon and all the wonderful phases the moon goes through.

Jude wants all his friends to know too, so the next time you see the moon changing shapes you know why!

(Continues…)

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