Books published by publisher Moonlight Publishing Limited

Why is a storm noisy? Why do trees lose their leaves in autumn? Why are there mountains? Why do we have a belly button? What are flamingos pink? Why don’t boats sink? Why is seawater salty? This book provides clear answers to many questions that children ask, but also invites them to explore further and to ask many more questions. These clear and concise answers to 150 questions about animals, the human body, and the Earth and sky are accompanied by more than 200 detailed and lifelike illustrations that help children visualize and contextualize the answers. Many of the larger illustrations are labeled, enabling children to build their vocabulary, and there is a quiz at the end of the book.

Follow the construction of an immense pyramid, ordered by the Egyptian pharaoh for his burial tomb. Illustrations showing detailed aerial views allow us to marvel at the ancient construction site where thousands of workers are employed and huge stone blocks are carved and transported by hand. Share the wonder of the archeologists who discover the pharoah’s tomb where the pharoah’s mummified remains lie in a sarcophagus. Uncover the mystery of the Sphinx. Find out about other pyramids and other wonders of the ancient world.

Who were our earliest human ancestors? Where did they come from? What tools did they invent? How did they evolve over time? What traces did they leave behind? The reader will learn answers to these and many more questions. Children will step inside the cave of a prehistoric family by turning the page, learn about hunting mammoth and reindeer, making clothes and tools, and painting on cave walls with their hands.

As a young Polish boy, Chopin was already composing his own tunes at the age of five. He learned Latin, Greek, and French, then German, English, and Italian at the same time he was learning to play the piano. Children who can tell stories through their piano playing or singing, or who have ever danced a Polish mazurka, will find that they have much in common with Chopin.

Follow Ray Charles's rise from humble beginnings, overcoming hardship, loss, and blindness to become the undisputed king of rhythm ’n’ blues. Each spread relates a different stage of his life, and key moments are captured by evocative photos from the time and Rémi Courgeon’s beautiful illustrations. The narrative of the book is recorded on the accompanying CD, as well as 15 of the singer’s most emblematic recordings.

Thirteen-year-old twins Rodney and Wayne McCall and their friend Professor Johnson are the only people in Pitcherville who can see that all the natural laws of the universe have stopped applying to their town. When everyone in Pitcherville wakes up twelve years in the past, baby Rodney and baby Wayne must locate the Professor and find a way to get back to the present. From the critically-acclaimed author of Ella Minnow Pea comes yet another mind-bending tale of wit and whimsy for the whole family to enjoy.

Moby Dick for the blog generation. Cat food cannery worker Gus Openshaw has one goal in life: to kill a whale. Not just any whale, but a big, blubbery whale that ate his wife, child, and arm during a vicious and unprovoked attack.With a rickety boat and a heavily restrictive whale-hunting license, Gus sets out to exact his revenge. Along the way, Gus keeps an online journal – a blog – to keep the world informed about his misfit crew, his clashes with pirates, his near-fatal incarceration, and his infatuation with a certain island princess.Complete with gorgeous scrimshaw illustrations, Gus Openshaw's Whale-Killing Journal is the hilarious documentation of one man's obsessive pursuit of a giant whale that would make Captain Ahab proud. Keith Thomson wrote and directed the short film Cupidity, which played in the Sundance Film Festival and won the Laura Napor Award. He has also written feature films for Tri-Star, Paramount, and Disney. His first novel, Pirates of Pensacola, was released by St. Martin's Press in 2005.