A retelling of the Korean folktale, "The Legend of Moon Rabbit," with an urban setting and with a modern twist. It was especially fun to note how many kids said they would enjoy spending a day with Granny, the main character. Author-illustrator Heena Baek won the 2020 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and this is the first of her books to be published in English.

For the younger children, they could have activities with how the characters feel and what would make them feel that way. She has published thirteen picture books that are popular throughout Asia, a number of which have been translated. Trying in vain to get to sleep, the residents of a cramped apartment building turn on their air conditioners and fans, and leave their fridges open, causing a power outage!

The story of a hot night, a melting moon, and an ingenious way to cool down, it’s the perfect summer story. This retelling of the Korean folktale of the Legend of the Moon Rabbit is the perfect book to read on a sweltering summer evening.

BookPage is a recommendation guide for readers, highlighting the best new books across all genres as chosen by our editors.I love that there are main stream books available for children that teach them about folklore from other cultures. Chunky figures surrounded by lots of bright white space in Segal’s minimally detailed watercolors keep the visuals as simple as the plotline. L. Konigsburg Elizabeth George Speare Elsewhere Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. These aliens just show up after a night of the apartment complex having a moon pop (the melted moon frozen into popsicles) party. In fact, after reading it, I went to H Mart in Cambridge so I could walk around and inhabit the book’s setting for a little bit.

This modern, whimsical spin on a classic Korean folktale transports readers with eye-catching, detailed artwork and a magical story .At first unsure what do with the drops, she is soon inspired to turn them into popsicles--moon pops! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I loved Doerr’s earlier novel, All the Light We Cannot See, but had not gravitated to this one – until now.

The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read. Moon Pops is a strange and delightful tale made for lingering over—and perfect for reading with your own moon pop. My only quibble, was if the moon melted (and was thus liquid), but all the power went out, how did granny manage to freeze the moon pops? is the only resident to have noticed the moon dripping away to nothing, and she races outside to catch the drops to mix up a frozen treat: the titular moon pops, which are icy and sweet, melt away the heat.