Moon Boy by Barbara Brenner

Book Genre: Fiction

Publishing Info: Byron Preiss, 32 pages

Awards or honors received: None

Summary: This is a book about a little boy and the fantasy that he had one night when he couldn't sleep about a boy that came from the moon. When he couldn't sleep he played with this moon boy and let him keep him company. When the moon boy was set free the boy was able to fall asleep.

Personal rating and reason for rating: *** Good. This book is very strange to me, but my children seem to love it. It is a good read aloud early in the year for first graders, and later in the year they can read it themselves.

Reading level: 1.7

Interest level: k-3

Possible uses of the text in integrated units of study (reading and writing across the curriculum): This is a great book to show how authors discribe childrens imaginations. Using it in a writing lesson to show the skill, before asking the children to write about an imaginative prompt, like a dream or a daydream they have had.

Potential Problems or Difficulties: This book is just a little strange, and it is not too clear if the boy is dreaming this or daydreaming. But my first graders seemed to love it!