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Format: Hardback
Reading Age: From 5 to 8 years
Author: Tomi Ungerer
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Classification: General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Description: `The bright, galloping illustrations are as effective as any Tomi Ungerer has done. This has some of the sting of?Dr Strangelove?- but tenderized, the contemporary charisma of?Where the Wild Things Are: it's great! Exceptionally highly recommended' -?Kirkus Reviews In this beautifully illustrated and delightfully quirky tale by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers, the Man in the Moon looks down on the happy, dancing people on Earth every night, wishing he could join them. He hitches a ride on a passing comet and crash-lands on Earth, where he quickly finds himself thrown into jail by people who take him for an invader, rather than a friendly visitor. The Moon Man, however, has a most unusual - but perfectly logical - means of escape, and sets out to make his way back home. With gentle satire, Ungerer pokes fun at self-important adults who are afraid of anything or anyone unfamiliar and reminds us that there is indeed no place like home. On its first publication in the US in 1967, at the height of the Space Race,?Moon Man?won the?Book Week?prize for books for children aged 4-8, and Maurice Sendak described it in?Book Week?as 'Easily one of the best picture books in recent years' Since then, it has been translated into 12 languages. Ages 4-8
Moon Man
£14.95
Product Details
Reading Age: From 5 to 8 years
Author: Tomi Ungerer
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Classification: General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Description: `The bright, galloping illustrations are as effective as any Tomi Ungerer has done. This has some of the sting of?Dr Strangelove?- but tenderized, the contemporary charisma of?Where the Wild Things Are: it's great! Exceptionally highly recommended' -?Kirkus Reviews In this beautifully illustrated and delightfully quirky tale by one of the world's best-loved and acclaimed storytellers, the Man in the Moon looks down on the happy, dancing people on Earth every night, wishing he could join them. He hitches a ride on a passing comet and crash-lands on Earth, where he quickly finds himself thrown into jail by people who take him for an invader, rather than a friendly visitor. The Moon Man, however, has a most unusual - but perfectly logical - means of escape, and sets out to make his way back home. With gentle satire, Ungerer pokes fun at self-important adults who are afraid of anything or anyone unfamiliar and reminds us that there is indeed no place like home. On its first publication in the US in 1967, at the height of the Space Race,?Moon Man?won the?Book Week?prize for books for children aged 4-8, and Maurice Sendak described it in?Book Week?as 'Easily one of the best picture books in recent years' Since then, it has been translated into 12 languages. Ages 4-8
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