Rabbit Moon
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Rabbit Moon weaves together a tale of wishes, play, loneliness, and friendship -- beautifully illustrated in a style that evokes Kevin Henkes, Jon Muth, Shaun Tan, and Renata Liwska.Bedtime wishes take flight on paper airplanes, traveling all the way to the moon. There Rabbit gathers the night's haul, grinds the wishes into stardust, and fills the sky with their starlight. It is a beautiful sight to behold, but lonely work. So one night, Rabbit takes a wish and makes it float down to earth; when it comes true, he makes new friends and the star work takes a back seat to some well-earned fun. But as each day fades, so do the night stars. And with the first starless sky, Rabbit realizes it's time to make the journey home. It is a sad departure, but Rabbit's friends make one last wish, and send an astronomical gift.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kim's debut as both author and artist opens on a night lit by the full moon. In soft, powdery spreads and panels, she draws a peaceful town inhabited by childlike animals. Koreans don't see a man in the moon, an opening author's note explains, but a rabbit pounding rice into cakes, and it's the custom to wish on it when it's full: "What is it we wish tonight?/ Across the sky... A journey far.../ Till Rabbit turns them into stars." A raccoon writes its wish on paper and folds it into an airplane. Other creatures do the same, and their wish-airplanes glow as they soar moonward, where they land in Rabbit's mortar and he pounds them into stars that set his furry face aglow. Rabbit makes a wish, too: he dons a space helmet and heads to Earth, where he shares in the pleasures of the animals' lives cycling, going to the library, rowing before returning to the moon. Kim's dreamy words and pictures seem simple, but they're subtly paced and polished; her world, with its friendly glow and reassuring companionship, is one children will want to return to. Ages 3 5.
