Moon Pops

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Marcie, an LE teacher, enjoyed Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (one of my favorites), Leave the World Behind by Rumann Alam, and Math Games with Bad Drawings by Ben O rlin. After working in advertising and multimedia for children, she began to create her own picture books when her daughter was born.

A strange and delightful tale made for lingering over--and perfect for reading with your own moon pop .This would make a great classroom read for young elementary school children learning about folklore from around the world. I had to look up the folktale, though, when I read about air conditioners and freezers on the second spread.

The first six pages pull readers into a lush, beautiful world of nighttime: “When the sun has set, silence falls over the Big Forest, and all of the nighttime animals wake up. A retelling of the Korean folktale, "The Legend of Moon Rabbit," with an urban setting and with a modern twist.

This retelling of the Korean folktale of the Legend of the Moon Rabbit is the perfect book to read on a sweltering summer evening.

Inspired by Korean folklore, this bedtime story uses cutout ink characters within detailed dioramas to depict a magical summer night. With a background in film animation, her unique visual style features handmade miniature figurines and environments painstakingly lighted and photographed. It’s wonderful to walk down the Lower Elementary hallway and see the brightly colored art the students did in response to their summer book, Moon Pops by Heena Baek. That’s when the two moon rabbits showed up and Granny had to figure out how to rebuild their moon home using the last drops of the moon.According to Korean legend, a rabbit lives in the moon, and this story puts a cute twist on the idea of the makeup of the moon. Again, publisher description says: “illustrated in otherworldly mixed-media” and it is otherworldly for certain. Chunky figures surrounded by lots of bright white space in Segal’s minimally detailed watercolors keep the visuals as simple as the plotline. On a very hot summer evening, when nothing seems to work to keep a group of neighbors cool, the moon starts melting. I love that there are main stream books available for children that teach them about folklore from other cultures.

For the older children, science lessons could be designed around studying the properties of matter (when the moon is solid and liquid) and the phases of the moon shown at the end of the book. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Illustrated in otherworldly mixed-media 3D shoebox dioramas that use unique and exquisite collage art, this quirky and colorful picture book spins a new story from the common East Asian fable of the rabbit in the moon.A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum is very interesting story about three generations of Palestinian women, the younger ones now living in modern day Brooklyn, NY. Similarly, the text moves from a lulling, magical cadence to a distinct shift in mood as the bugs ready themselves for their foray into the night: “They wave their bottoms in the air, wiggle their feelers, take a deep, deep breath, and sing, ‘Here we go, it’s time to glow!