The Moon Shines Down

The Moon Shines Down
by Margaret Wise Brown

The Moon Shines Down
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Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator: Linda Bleck
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-04
ISBN: 140031299X
Number of pages: 48
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Book Reviews of The Moon Shines Down

Book Review: Great illustration, terrible rhythm and rhyme
Summary: 2 Stars

We bought this book because our daughter is obsessed with the moon and we also enjoy reading Goodnight Moon, however Goodnight Moon is in a different class from this book. It seems to me that this book was written by someone that has not the basic grasp of writing rhythm and rhyme. The rhyming in the text in places is bad and other times it is simply awful. Not sure how this got past an editor. I don't have the book in front of my but I know one particular stinker is the Mexico page, where the writer writes something like "God bless the children in Mexico and the Toucan with her funny nose"??? (This line was supposed to rhyme!) I find this book very awkward to read.

The saving grace, and the reason I gave the book 2 stars is that the book is very nicely illustrated, which my daughter loves. I tend to avoid reading the text and make up stories of our own, about the animals or people in the book.

This book's text is a major let-down, we quite often show it to our friends for fun to see there reactions to the awful rhymes.

Summary of The Moon Shines Down

The Moon Shines Down

by Margaret Wise Brown

Illustrated by Linda Bleck??

Forgotten for decades in a dusty, tucked-away trunk, The Moon Shines Down brings to life once more the unmistakable voice of Margaret Wise Brown. This soon-to-be classic allows a whole new generation of children to discover, cherish, and enjoy the artistry of this beloved author.

Never before published, The Moon Shines Down on children all over the world from right next door to across the sea, from where "a Dutch boy dreams" and "cowbells ring" to "across the sea in the Far, Far East", through the familiar prayer:

I see the Moon

And the Moon sees me.

God bless the Moon,

And God bless me.

Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952) was a pioneer of children's literature, choosing to write the stories that children wanted to hear-rather than those that grown-ups wanted to tell. She is best known for her now classic Good Night Moon and Runaway Bunny, which remain among the world's best-selling children's books.

Margaret was a prolific writer, and, at the peak of her career, she had over 100 books in print. Her untimely death left numerous manuscripts and ideas behind in various stages of completion. After a time, these were tucked away in a cedar trunk and largely forgotten. It is from this forgotten trunk that The Moon Shines Down was rescued.?

Illustrator Linda Bleck began her artistic career as a child, drawing on rolls of old blueprint paper supplied by her architect father. Later, she helped her mother, a freelance illustrator for Hallmark, paint in the details of her intricate drawings. Linda's work has appeared in The NewYorker, Time Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She is also the writer and illustrator of the "Pepper the Dog" series, which won the National Parenting Publication Award.

Linda and her family now live in southern Wisconsin . . . where the moon shines down on them, one and all.

The Story Behind the Lost Manuscript . . .?

The Moon Shines Down

from MARGARET WISE BROWN,

the Author of Goodnight Moon?

The Moon Shines Down is being published for the first time 56 years after the death of the beloved children's author Margaret Wise Brown.

Amazingly, this unpublished manuscript lay incomplete and forgotten in a cedar trunk in a Vermont barn. When it was discovered, the onionskin paper had yellowed and the paperclips that held the pages together had rusted. Children's book publisher, Laura Minchew, a longtime fan of Brown, took on the challenge to complete the work.

Based on the New England Sampler prayer, "God Bless the Moon and God Bless Me," this soon-to-be bedtime classic is a prayer for God's blessing on all the world's children.

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