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Gr 1–3—The "can-do" attitude of this redheaded, gap-toothed hero; the outlandish plot; and quirky caricatures conjure up Gerstein's collaboration with Elizabeth Levy in the popular "Something Queer" series (Delacorte). The sensitive boy has always thought that the full moon looked sad. When his parents suggest that loneliness may be the cause, he determines that sunflowers are the solution. Speaking in the first and second persons, he describes his plan in illustrated steps, because "with homework, soccer, violin, and all that other stuff...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

How would you get to the moon? Here's "a simple but brilliant plan in 24 easy steps," instigated by the gap-toothed narrator's wish to comfort a sad-faced moon. What follows is ebulliently fanciful: a giant slingshot fashioned from inner tubes propels a line of garden hoses, anchoring it to the moon with a flagpole arrow ("Once the flagpole escapes earth's gravity, it will just keep going"); the narrator r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More