I’ve mentioned before that I love Gail Gibbons’ nonfiction picture books: she does a great job at capturing a subject with lots of detail, but presenting it in a way that kids can understand. The Moon Book (Holiday House, 1997) is no exception. While it is illustrated, it is not cartoony. Gibbons provides a readable picture book, with the bonus of regular sidebars and notes on the pictures.
While it is above my three-year-old’s interest level (it is packed with dense information), it still interested him. Sometimes we’d just read just a few pages, or we’d skip around. Most times, he’d linger on the pictures of the moon orbiting the earth and talk to me about how the moon goes around and around the earth.
