Many Moons

from JackieHancox

I was delighted by this tale of the princess who was able to problem solve to get what she wanted - the moon. I chuckled at the humorous storyline and fell in love with the doodle, dream-like illustrations. Their bright colours and simplistic design seemed a perfect match to the simple solution t...

from AbigailAdams26

Many Moons, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. Wonderful, wise, heartwarming and humorous, this original fairy-tale from James Thurber, celebrated cartoonist and short-story writer, as well as author of a number of (other) classic children's books - The Thirteen Clocks, The Wonderful O - follows the...

from rturba

Genre: Fantasy Review: This book depicts fantasy very well. The characters are developed enough to make it believable, yet the situations they are in are completely fantastical. The solution for the princesses problems are easily explainable, yet the solutions people come up with are unrealistic.

from conuly

And some are classics because they're JUST THAT GOOD. Many Moons is in the second one. Fully twenty years after I read it as a child, I picked it up and was able to remember the plot. That's lasting power. This is a funny book about the difference in perceptions - who is right about the moon? - a...

from AbigailAdams26

Many Moons, illustrated by Marc Simont. This original fairy-tale from James Thurber, in which the young Princess Lenore becomes ill after eating too many raspberry tarts, and asks her concerned father for the moon, was initially published in 1943, and won its original illustrator, Louis Slobodkin...