Illustrator: Vo-Dinh Mai
Readability: 4.9
Genre: Fantasy
Sub Genre: Folktales
Theme: Have respect to your elders and keep your word.
Primary Characters: Each chapter tells a new story with several characters
Secondary Characters: Each chapter tells a new story with several characters
Awards: N/A
Publishication Date: 1993
Publisher: HarperCollings
ISBN: 0-06-023000-2
Summary: This book is full of stories about the sky, mostly the moon. The book is full of characters of the earth who in one way or the other come in contact with the spirtitual world. Many times a fairy comes down to earth to help someone out, but they end up falling in love. In the spirtiual world one day equals a year on earth. So the fairy can stay for a couple years before her father finds out she is missing and summons her home. These departures useless cause heartache for all envolved. However in some of the stories the human is brought up with the fairy and can remain there. These story are to create a reason for why the moon doesn't shine very bright at night, or why the sun the sets, and even why the moon has phases.These stories are full of anticcapation, mystery, and of course fantasy.How would use: This book would be fun to read to student maybe a chapter at a time and have them reflect and come up with own interpertain for... (an example) why the moon has phases. I could also read them the story and have them tell me what they think the story is trying be symbolic of... moon phases, sun sets, etc... because the stories in the book do not just come out and give their meaning.
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