Love, Sophia on the Moon
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Life on Earth isn't always fair, so Sophia runs off to the moon, where there are no bedtimes, no time-outs, and no Mom.
But as Sophia and her mom send letters to each other, Mom has a clever comeback for all of Sophia's angry notes. Home starts to sound not-quite-so-bad, especially when Mom reports that someone from the moon has moved in to Sophia's old room, they're having spaghetti for dinner, and they're reading Sophia's favorite story at bedtime.
A through line of unconditional love underscored with lots of humor and imagination makes this picture book a stellar pick for storytime.
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This epistolary story opens with Sophia sitting in a time-out that she is not going to take lying down. In her first letter following the incident, she informs her mother that she's headed to the moon with her orange cat, Mr. Wubbles. "Don't try to stop me," she writes. "Oh no!" Mom replies. "That's a shame. I was about to make cookies. Now who will lick the beater?" Sophia frolics in Song's (Ho'onani Hula Warrior) purple-hued lunar landscape, dancing through the sky with floating "moonicorns." But when Mom announces that she's found a new occupant for Sophia's bed a moon kid named Grorg her daughter begins to show signs of homesickness beneath her enthusiastic exterior. Gradually, the clever, unhurried parent wins her daughter back but, in a nice twist, is willing to meet Sophia right where she is, both emotionally and spatially. Text by Rissi (Watch Out for Wolf!) gently portrays the stubborn flight and the resulting plight of a frustrated child, and a mother whose measured responses and funny nuggets of rhetoric show that she loves her child to the moon and "all the way back." Ages 3 5. Author's)
