Customer Reviews

Moon Plane

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I gave this to my daughter for her 2nd birthday, she is a fan of both the moon and planes. The illustrations are so beautiful. The text is simple, she follows along and can name the objects on each page. She loves this book.

This is my two year old daughter's favorite book at the moment, and I have to say that it's her first favorite book that I haven't grown sick of after about a day of reading it 50 times. It's been over a week, and I still don't mind!

The text is simple and has a nice rhythm. The illustrations are deceptively simple: simple images but beautiful detail that they hold your attention. My four month old stares at each picture for ages, too!

I definitely recommend this book as a wonderful calming picture book.

Great illustrations, great story. Perfect as a gift for a dreamer or to read at bedtime. This has made it into our permanent rotation. What could be neater then believing you can go to the moon and be back for bedtime?

I love to read Moon Plane aloud to my children. Not only is the story enchanting, but the prose is poetic and adds to it's dreamy nature. Some children's bedtime stories are cute. This one taps into those magic years of childhood. Enjoy it.

This is the most wonderful children's book I've seen since E. Palmer Brown's Cheerful. My 9-month-old son literally crawls over the side of the glider and reaches for this book every night before going to bed and just beams at the pictures (and the font!). Now that he's crawling, he will often crawl over to his bookshelf and go directly for this book over others. It's amazing! Hurray for Peter McCarty!

Who wouldn't like to fly? The little boy in the story does, and our grandson would like to fly too. In a plane. Over cars. To the moon. And then back to mom and his plane-covered comforter for a traveler's peaceful sleep. And, of course, that old moon is winking in the window.

I was first introduced to Peter McCarty's work with Little Bunny on the Move. I enjoyed the art in that book immensely, and the art in Moon Plane is of similar style and equal quality. In addition, I believe the text in this book is better. This is a superb young children's book.

This book has some beautiful illustrations, and the simple story is very sweet. I read it to my 2.5-yr-old, and I was amazed at the way it hit home with him. He was not previously interested in either planes or moons, but he breathed the story in like air. It was the first time I saw him identify himself with a tale. "This is Liam," he would say, pointing to the boy on each page. I believe some part of him was truly convinced that he had flown a plane to the moon each night. His pajamas suddenly became his space suit. He loved the idea of "running back to Momo" and getting tucked into bed. "What is outside the window?" we ask him on the last page. "Did you fly a plane to the moon? And did you jump so high that you were flying like the plane?" "Yes!" he says, with delighted conviction. We just read the library book, but I am about to order a copy of our own for my second son's birthday, hoping that his first "flight" will be as magical as his older brother's was.