Books with title CHECKING ON THE MOON

This is an artist-led picture book, which introduces young children to the vastness of the universe, how far away the moon is, what gravity is and the concept of space travel through a gentle and captivating story about an imaginative little girl. Combining full colour illustrations with NASA photographs from the surface of the moon, this beautifully illustrated picture book takes young children on an amazing journey into outer space. The story s use of rhythmic text generates an evocative and friendly tale, taking children on a magical and informative journey.

This is a new title in the fantastic 'First Reading' series, part of 'The Usborne Young Reading Programme'. It is aimed at children who are beginning to read. Let your imagination fly - soar into space and take a trip to the moon. It features photographs with real images of the moon and fun puzzles after the story to consolidate learning. Developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, who is a Principal Lecturer in Education and an early reading specialist from Roehampton University. Every title in this series features clear and compelling text accompanied by highly appealing illustrations. It is designed to motivate children as they learn to read.

Cab Jones has never met her grandmother or been to the town where she lives. But when Cab's mother and new stepfather takes off to Europe for the summer, Cab and her older brother find themselves stuck in Washco, Pennsylvania. The streets are dirty and drab, and Cab is afraid she'll never make friends.But Cab's summer job waitressing in her grandmother's restaurant--EATS--proves to be a great way to meet people, including her new friend, Tracy. Slowly Cab comes to love the neighborhood and the restaurant's colorful coffee drinkers.Then the even fabric of summer in Washco is ripped apart when terrible crimes are committed against the residents. Cab and Tracy join a crusade to restore safety to the streets of the place that has become home to Cab. But by summer's end Cab finds the future has another home in store for her.

If you follow Alarie Tennille’s work, you may think you know what to expect in this, her second book. Think again. In Waking on the Moon, you’ll find her trademark ekphrastic poems along with poems of family, loss, and ordinary days. But there’s a more fully developed power and sureness that mark this collection, an expanded sense of mystery and foreboding (“Silence...rattles/windows, presses/an ear to the door”). Tennille strips away veneers, shows us “disaster poking through.” Reassuringly, however, whimsy also abides: Visiting Paris, she despairs of getting it “on paper” but decides “Paris is poetry/without any help from me.” Jo McDougall, author of The Undiscovered Room Alarie Tennille’s poems ache with the tension of an ironic tenderness. Peopled with characters of great range, they can be as slick as Death in the ballroom who in asking a young girl to dance “promised he’d never leave,” or as gentle as a paratrooper trying to humanize World War II to a favorite daughter, adding “a derby to his drab uniform.” Waking on the Moon leaves footprints on a lunar surface, reminding us of a bygone sublimity we’ve all but forgotten. Al Ortolani, author of Painted Birds Don’t Fly Alarie Tennille has a good eye. Finely tuned images and ekphrastic poems abound in this collection. She follows Edvard Munch to personify Melancholy. Robert Rauschenberg inspires her to muse on the interconnectedness of life. She speaks in the voices of birds, imagines the moon, inhabits memory. Her straightforward poems lead us to experience and explore the sorrows and exaltations of existence, to understand this world “doesn’t feel like home, but always will be.” Ruth Bavetta, author of Fugitive Pigments and Flour, Water, Salt