Your Moon, My Moon: A Grandmother's Words to a Faraway Child
School year: Year 1, Year 2
No. of pages 256
Published: 2011
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A beautiful, lyrical poem coupled with Bryan Collier's rich collages, "Here and There" celebrates the importance of staying close to your family, even across thousands of miles.
This book is the winner of numerous awards
There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster .
Bryan Collier has illustrated more than twenty-five picture books, including the award-winning Dave the Potter , Knock Knock , and Fifty Cents and a Dream , and has received numerous awards, including three Caldecott Honors and five Coretta Scott King Awards. He lives with his wife and children in Marlboro, New York.
This book has been nominated for the following award:
Parents' Choice Award - Picture Book
This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Parents' Choice Award.
Collier's crisp, complex illustrations add light to Newbery Award-winner MacLachlan's open letter to a grandchild who lives in Africa. . . Despite the distance and differences in landscape, text and art shape the story from one of separation into one of connection. Successive spreads make it clear that the grandmother is headed to Africa; in the penultimate painting, she enters the child's room with a wrapped present. While not all children are equally conscious of those who are absent, MacLachlan's distinctive grace and lyricism make this an effective if solemn reminder that they are loved and remembered from afar.
--"Publishers Weekly", June 6, 2011
A grandmother who lives in the U.S. prepares to visit her grandson, who lives in Africa. While the moon is common to them both, she points out the many differences in their lives as she reminisces about past times together. When it is cold in one place, it is hot and dry in the other. There is ice-skating where she lives and lake swimming where he lives. Always, though, there is the moon, and as the story comes to a close, grandparent and grandchild are reunited under it. Collier's vibrant illustrations are a blend of watercolor and his trademark collage. This is a wonderful book to contrast different lifestyles. Pair it with Nigel Gray's "A Country Far Away" (Scholastic, 1989) to further illustrate cultural differences and human commonalities."-Joan Kindig, JamesMadisonUniversity, Harrisonburg, VA"
SLJ, August 2011