The Moon Over Star

Gorgeous paintings! A story that ended up bringing tears to my eyes, even though I thought it was not much better than mediocre for quite some time. The story didn’t flow easily, I didn’t think, but it ended up being emotionally moving. The granddaughter-grandfather relationship is wonderful. Not only......more

This is a story of a girl named Mae who follows the first moon landing in 1969. This book is wonderfully illustrated with a heartwarming connection between a girl and her seemingly set in his ways grandfather. Mae is intrigued by astronauts’ moon landing and her grandfather thinks the money spent to......more

3rd-5th Jerry Pinkney’s illustrations in watercolors grab a reader when they first open the book. In the course of this 32 page book he has illustrations of a rural farm, where kids are pretending to be astronauts, to the span view between the earth and the moon, to the launch of a rocket and the sur......more

Further back than my memories go, there have ALWAYS been footprints on the moon. They were there more than a decade before I was born, so I always sorta took this for granted. There have ALWAYS, to my mind, been footprints on the moon (even though I know there haven't), and there have ALWAYS been sp......more