Many Moons (A Harcourt Brace contemporary classic)
A wise tale of a little princess who wanted the moon and got it. “Grown-ups themselves will find the book hilariously funny. . . . The lovely, squiggly illustrations in color are exactly right.”--The New Yorker
A wise tale of a little princess who wanted the moon and got it. “Grown-ups themselves will find the book hilariously funny. . . . The lovely, squiggly illustrations in color are exactly right.”--The New Yorker
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780152018955 (0152018956)
Publish date: September 1st 1998
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Classics,
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Juvenile,
Fairy Tales,
Family,
Kids,
Picture Books
written by James Thurber, illustrated by Marc Simont I haven't read the original, so I have nothing to compare this one to. I enjoyed the story and Simont's watercolor illustrations very much though. At first I thought it was strange that anyone would update a Caldecott winner (unless there was so...
This was one of my favorite books as a kid.
Ivory, apes, and peacocks, rubies, opals, and emeralds, black orchids, pink elephants, and blue poodles, gold bugs, scarabs, and flies in amber, hummingbirds' tongues, angels' feathers, and unicorns' horns, giants, midgets, and mermaids, frankincense, ambergris, and myrrh, troubadours, minstrels, an...
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 by James Thurber, Marc Simont, now listed on BookLikes)