Maisy's Moon Landing

Reviewed by: Sheila Dube - Springvale Public Library, Springvale, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: March 6, 2017

Review

This fourth installment in the Maisy first science book series is a pop-up book with tabs. Cousins's bright primary-colored signature illustrations are consistent throughout. Maisy is the character shown on each moveable piece, but Maisy's friends do make a few appearances in the background. On the first page Maisy wonders about being so far from home. On each page after, she takes off in a rocket, travels 3 days to get there, lands on the moon, drives on a moon buggy and gets back in the rocket to parachute in a capsule to end the adventure. The left side of each two page spread has an information block with three words and their corresponding pictures identified. For Rocket launch the three words are rocket, sun and space suit. Readers will also learn satellite, landing module, crater, parachute and recovery ship. This treatment of the subject would make for a fun story time on space.

Overall Book Score: very good