Can I read The Moon on EtoBox?

The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson; pictures by Tracey Campbell Pearson is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Moon about?

<p><P>So begins Robert Louis Stevenson's famous poem <i>The Moon</i>. Now Tracey Campbell Pearson takes readers on an illustrative late-night adventure set to this text in which we follow not only the moon as it shines on the creatures of the night, but also a father and his young son out on a late-night romp through quiet streets and fields, in a boat around a moonlit bay, and home again to sleep in their cozy house.<P>Detailed, luminous watercolor-and-ink paintings capture the magic of nighttime, and its many nocturnal creatures, as well as the special love between a father and son.</p><h3>Children's Literature</h3><p>Stevenson's classic poetic tribute to the moon is the framework around which Pearson has built a rich visual story, as the poem is printed a line per double page or more. The building blocks are a young family presented in double-page detailed scenes in a somewhat casual naturalism. Interiors show the clutter of piled-up laundry and two kittens in action. A father wakes a young child, dresses him, collects him, the dog, and other essentials like stuffed animals, and going past the raccoon (the "thieves on the garden wall" of the poem) drives to a boat in the harbor,

Who reads The Moon?

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson; pictures by Tracey Campbell Pearson

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374350468

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Poetry

Rating

3.5 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14