Regards To The Man In The Moon (Reading Rainbow Book)

A kid named Louie is unhappy because his friends call his father the "junkman" because he collects so much junk around the house. However, his father tells him that is not junk and to use his imagination and see what he can do with it. Louie and his friends take a trip to outer space and have the

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time of their lives. They return back to earth to tell everyone about the great adventure they had! Great book for 1st graders and older.

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This book is about a little boy named Louie who is constantly teased by other kids; they call his father the junkman. Louie explains this to his father, and he soon learns that with a little immagination all "this stuff" can "take you out of this world." Together, Louie and his father made a

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spaceship and called it Imaginaion I. Most all of the other kids laughed at his remark about traveling into space; however, Susie was thrilled and wanted to join. The very next day, Louie and Susie used their imaginations and traveled to space, where they learned about all different kinds of stuff. Once they returned, they told all of the other kids about their journey, and before long, the others wanted to travel with them as well.
I would read this book to students in kindergarten through second grade. A perfect time to read this is when trying to get students to use their imaginations for something. Also, this book could be read when students are learning about space because it has to do with traveling to space.

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Ezra Jack Keats is a classic picture book author. Your library isn't complete without at least a few of his books.

This one is less well-known, I think, than some of the others such as The Snowy Day... and I'm not very surprised.

The story itself is great. A kid is teased for his father owning a

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junkyard, and his parents help him use the junk to build a pretend spaceship... so he and some of the other kids pretend to travel through space, and the story is built up with what they pretend to see. Great!

Except I found it a little moralizing. Louie talks actively about "using our imagination" and "don't you have any imagination" and "they thought they ran out of imagination", and we're explicitly told that the two kids who "ran out of imagination" found themselves unable to move in their make-believe world (probably because they weren't really moving, but let's not go there). I don't hear children speaking like this in real life. It sounds more like teacher-talk than like child-talk to me - children are more likely to say "let's pretend" or "let's make like" - or to even just go ahead and *do* it. And if they can't come up with something, they say that or let somebody else make things up instead of bemoaning their lack of imagination.

It's still a good book, and a good addition to your library, but I prefer The Pet Show or Whistle for Willie instead.

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This is the story of a little boy who thought that everything his father had was junk. The boy's father told him that if he had any imagination that he would be fine and could see that everything was actually valuable. Soon the little boy and his friends were in outer space enjoying each other and

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floating through the galaxies. Now the little boys friends didn't laugh at his father's junk, they wanted to play with it!

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When you love a book and you share it with your child, your enthusiasm is contagious and your child will also develop a love of books and reading. This book encourages your child to dream big, explore and enjoy using their imagination.

This book is about not being afraid to used your imagation and explore the world of make believe.

The parents of a young boy help him realize the power of imagination and creativity. Even though most of the other children do not understand why he would want to pretend to go to the moon in a spaceship made from random items, the boy has quite a memorable journey in space.

The book would be very

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useful in discussing imagination, creativity, and ingenuity.

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This story depicts Louie and his close friends going on a journey using their imagination. They use "junk" to make a ship to get to the moon.

This story is about Louie, who was teased because of his Pop's junk. With imagination and help from his parent's, Louie can use the junk to go outer space. Louie and his friend Susie imagine they are outer space and are soon joined by their friends. Once all the other children found out about the

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adventure, they all wanted to go outer space.

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This book tells the reader to use their imagination but I feel a disconnect between the pictures and the text. For example, the book mentions the space rocks are really monsters, I feel the illustrator should have added monster qualities to the rocks, instead they are just rocks. I did not find

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this to be a book I would recommend.

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The story and illustrations in this book are beautiful.

Louie is the son of a "junk" man and his wife. Who is teased because of his parents career in junk. His father teaches him to see past the pile as just junk and use his imagination to travel to outer space.

I loved Susie...the brave girl that

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steps forward to ask if she can travel to space with Louie. He tells her it all depends..."got lots of imagination?"

Reminds me of summer days of my youth where the couch became a ship and the red carpet was lava.

Celebrates imagination.

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I think the big message in this book is to use your imagination. Imagination can make anything possible. I liked this book because it encourages children to use their imagination and that when you do anything can happen. One reason I didn't like this book was the writing. I feel as if I couldn't

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tell which character was speaking and I felt as if it did not flow all together.

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It is a good book to tell the kids that anything is possible if you just put some imagination to it just like Louie did. All his friends were laughing at all the junk Louie's dad have and when they saw that Louie was having so much fun they wanted to join him.

Regards to the Man in the Moon by Ezra Jack Keats is the fourth of the Louie books. Louie is upset because the neighborhood kids have been teasing his father, calling him a junk man. So he and Louie conspire to show them the importance of reusing and upcycling.

Louie and his step dad get to work to

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make a neighborhood version of Verne and Méliès's masterpiece. They make their rocket ship out of cardboard and other materials left in the scrap yard. As the children get wrapped up in their project and then in the playtime, Keats's illustrations switch more and more to showing what they are imagining.

As the daughter of an antiques dealer, I could relate to the teasing Louie received. Every vacation we went on, we invariably ended up visiting local dumping sites for those forgotten (and free!) gems that could be fixed up and sold (for profit!) Locally there were the estate sales (morbid but kind of fun, see Bad Houses by Sara Ryan. And worse of all, there was the occasional Dumpster diving.

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Louie is unhappy when his friends call his dad the junkman. But his father has a secret: he knows it just takes imagination for that stuff to take a person right out of this world.

Louie gets to work building Imagination I . . . a spaceship fueled solely by imagination . . . and blasts off to an

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amazing adventure.

This book, from Caldecott Medal winner Ezra Jack Keats, is a Reading Rainbow selection that celebrates the young reader’s inventiveness with a fantastical tale of inspiration, friendship, and creativity. The target audience is first and second graders, ages five through nine. With its colorful, chimerical illustrations of planets and outer space, the touching tale dazzles both the eyes and the imagination. Young readers are sure to return to this story again and again.

Highly recommended.

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