Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me is a book to be re-read many times, and to be treasured for its beauty and its positive message of love and inspiration. And, on a deeper level, they will recognize that Papa is not merely fulfilling Monica's whim, but is demonstrating to her that even a seemingly unreachable goal can actually be attained.

In this unique and delightful picture book, the story literally unfolds as pages open dramatically. Small readers will empathize with Monica's longing for the moon, and will be reassured by her father's willingness to try to make her wish come true. Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle (Hardback). The simple text, just right for reading aloud or for the beginning reader expresses perfectly the purity of a father's love for his child. Here is a multi-faceted story that appeals to children visually, verbally and emotionally, and which also contains a first lesson in natural history, depicting the eternal cycle of the waxing and waning of the moon. Photographer, painter, illustrator, writer. It isn't easy to climb all the way up to the moon, but he finally succeeds - only to find that the moon is too big to carry home! The way in which this problem is solved is a joyful surprise. Monica wants the moon to play with, so her Papa sets out to get it for her. 'Bright collage images, imaginative stories, and little details die cut pages, a firefly’s twinkling lights, a quiet cricket’s song made Eric’s. In remembrance: In the light of the moon, holding on to a good star, a painter of rainbows. In this unique and delightful picture book, the story literally unfolds as pages open dramatically, extending both outward and upward. Eric Carle died in 2021 at the age of 91.

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