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Moontellers: Myths of The Moon from Around the World

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Moontellers is a wonderful book for children and adults alike. The text is well-written and intriguing while the illustrations take the reader on a journey across our globe. This is a book for anyone who enjoys folk tales, the moon or just plain good literature. The added bonus is that it is about stories from around the world and the reader is sure to identify with at least some of the people featured in the book.

Superstitions about the moon have been with us as long as rational man.

"Moontellers" presents viewpoints of the moon from 11 different cultures, ranging from China to Polynesia to Africa.

The various legends and facts are accompanied by artist Greg Shed's mystical lunar paintings.

Greg Shed has done a fantastic job with these illustrations, bringing in cultural details and finding the shapes in the moon.

Each double page spread talks about moon tales within a culture, has a small poem, offers a moon tale in a sigle paragraph, and then adds factual information about the life and people who tell the story. It's a well-done book.

I wish the actual moon tales were longer - to me, those were the most interesting thing. The illustrations are true knock-outs.