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Moonday (2013)

by Adam Rex(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1423119207 (ISBN13: 9781423119203)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Disney-Hyperion

review 1: Moonday is an imaginative, beautifully illustrated book about a little girl who wakes up to find the moon has descended into her backyard. Morning never comes, and everyone at school and throughout the town is sleepy and drowsy as they go about their day in darkness. Meanwhile, the main character and her parents try to cover the moon with tablecloths before they decide to go for a drive, where they can then see the moon from afar, on top of their hill. This book is a picture book, as it contains mostly pictures with a few lines of text on each page. It’s aimed at young children, likely for K-2, and my first thought while reading it was that it’d be a fun stepping stone to a writer’s workshop connection. Since the book deals with an imaginative thought – what would ... morehappen if the moon descended into your backyard? – the story covers the consequences of this, including the tides rushing into the backyard, and many dogs running over to howl at the moon. In a classroom setting, a teacher could use a creative writing prompt similar to this, such as: what would happen if the sun descended into your backyard instead of the moon? What would happen? The teacher could also point out the subtle details in the story, as well; for example, the little girl is in the car with her family at both the beginning and the end of the story, and ends up being tucked into bed. The class could discuss how the whole story might have been a dream, and could talk about how when we ride in a car at night, the moon seems to follow us as we drive. This could tie in some science concepts, as well, if studying the moon or the planets, and can touch on misconceptions about the moon (such as the thought that it “follows” you as you drive in a car).
review 2: Moonday by Adam Rex is a wonderful picturebook about what would happen if the moon lowered itself into your backyard. The changes in day and night, the tide, and everyone's lack of sleep would quickly become a problem. In a tale where a young girl takes the moon for a ride, Rex blurs the boundary between dreaming and reality.I really loved the artwork in Moonday. It is what caught my eye and made me open the book. The art is amazing and would make the book something you should read even without the story. The text flows very smoothly and has the feel of verse, with no rhymes but a it rolls of the tongue and works very well as a read aloud book. I think more could have been done with the importance of the moon for tides, day and night, and so on but still found the book to be beautiful and charming.I would recommend Moonday to those that enjoy fantastic illustrations and the use of imagination in daily life. I think the story would work well for storytime or bedtime reading, and for starting discussions about the moon, nighttime, and imagination. less

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