She tells her father, The King, that she must have the moon and she will be well. In the story, the Princess Lenore has fallen in from a surfeit of raspberry tarts, a common problem every child can relate to. Many Moons is a classic fairytale style story of a king, the princess Lenore, a magician, a mathematician, a wizard and the Jester, who turns out to be wiser than them all.

Thurber is one of my favorite short story writers, so I was stoked to be able to share his wry ironic style with my son. I know what you’re thinking, but Thurber isn’t the first children’s book author who was also a noteworthy Playboy Magazine contributor.

My wife picked up a copy of Many Moons at our local Reno Sundance Bookstore a few weeks ago. Ages 4-8., buoyant watercolors, full of poignancy and subtle merriment, more than do justice to Thurber's beloved tale.When you become a dad you think a few things, how can i get my kid to fall asleep? How can i get my kid to grow up to know the difference between knowledge and intelligence? How can I work James Thurber into the bedtime story repertoire? Fortunately, there is one single answer to all of those questions. Rosanne Cerny, Queens Borough Public Library, NY, 'Buoyant watercolors, full of poignancy and subtle merriment, more than do justice to Thurber's beloved tale of a princess who asks for the moon, and the wise jester who presents her with it,' said PW. This will delight a whole new generation of children. The pompous Lord High Chamberlain, the skatty Wizard, and the absent-minded Mathematician are as helpless as ever, and the little princess with her common sense and gap-toothed smile is charming. The clever Jester, dressed in fool's motley, is still the only one of the King's advisors who has the sense to ask Princess Lenore just what she expects when she asks for the moon. Backgrounds are generally sketchy, giving the characters center stage. His illustrations are more modern in appearance, although the essentially periodless style of dress on the characters has the timeless look that this literary fairy tale demands. PreSchool-Grade 3- Although the Caldecott-winning edition illustrated by Louis Slobodkin (HBJ, 1943) is the one that many parents and librarians grew up with, this new full-color version by Simont has a charm of its own.

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