Lila Danisa
3,5 stars rounded-up to 4 stars because Ms. McKenzie Nabi (Book Publicity Coordinator) of Atmosphere Press was so helpful when the book I got from NetGalley had formatting issues. Because of her, I can read this book. Hence, a deserved rounded-up.
This book talks about Maddy who loved science, especially moon (crescent moon to be specific), and called it The FingerNail Moon. She then had adventurous journey with mentioned moon. It was imaginary awesome. My son loved the idea of hanging on crescent moon and traveling around. Through this book, my son gained a love towards moon because before he hated moon so much. He associated moon with bedtime and he hates bedtime (to this day!). Thankfully, throughout this book and Maddy's story with her fingernail moon, my son hate feeling towards moon reduced and completely gone now (as I read this review).
However, my son and I had the same idea about the illustrations. We didn't like the illustrations much. It missed the details of the story. It was colorful enough but didn't portray the story well.
For me, the story itself was actually all over the place and kinda hard to understand. I needed to read the books like 3 times before I read it to my son. I also needed to simplify the words and the story so my son (soon to be 5 years old) could fully understand.
Yet, despite the bumps, my son and I had a fun time reading this book. This book brought back the obsession of space, galaxy, and planets to my son. We spend so much time going through a rabbit hole of moon phases, galaxies, and planets thanks to this book.
Thank you to Darrell Spencer, Greg McKenzie, Sarah Gledhill, McKenzie Nabi, Atmosphere Press, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.
3,5 stars rounded-up to 4 stars because Ms. McKenzie Nabi (Book Publicity Coordinator) of Atmosphere Press was so helpful when the book I got from NetGalley had formatting issues. Because of her, I can read this book. Hence, a deserved rounded-up.
This book talks about Maddy who loved science, especially moon (crescent moon to be specific), and called it The FingerNail Moon. She then had adventurous journey with mentioned moon. It was imaginary awesome. My son loved the idea of hanging on crescent moon and traveling around. Through this book, my son gained a love towards moon because before he hated moon so much. He associated moon with bedtime and he hates bedtime (to this day!). Thankfully, throughout this book and Maddy's story with her fingernail moon, my son hate feeling towards moon reduced and completely gone now (as I read this review).
However, my son and I had the same idea about the illustrations. We didn't like the illustrations much. It missed the details of the story. It was colorful enough but didn't portray the story well.
For me, the story itself was actually all over the place and kinda hard to understand. I needed to read the books like 3 times before I read it to my son. I also needed to simplify the words and the story so my son (soon to be 5 years old) could fully understand.
Yet, despite the bumps, my son and I had a fun time reading this book. This book brought back the obsession of space, galaxy, and planets to my son. We spend so much time going through a rabbit hole of moon phases, galaxies, and planets thanks to this book.
Thank you to Darrell Spencer, Greg McKenzie, Sarah Gledhill, McKenzie Nabi, Atmosphere Press, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Originally posted at www.goodreads.com.