How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers A Simple but Brilliant Plan in 24 Easy Steps

by Gerstein, Mordicai; Gerstein, Mordicai

• ISBN13: 9781596435124
• ISBN10: 1596435127
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-04-02
• Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Summary

Step 1: Get a bicycle. Step 2: Build a slingshot. Step 3: Ask NASA to loan you a spacesuit . . .In this simple, step-by-step instructional picture book, learn how you too can visit the moon on your bicycle! All you need is a very long garden hose, a very large slingshot, a borrowed spacesuit, and a bicycle . . . and plenty of imagination. With tongue firmly in cheek, Caldecott Medal winner Mordicai Gerstein outlines the steps needed in glorious comic book-style panels and a deadpan voice, leaving nothing out: the food you'll eat, how to deal with loneliness in space, how to water those sunflower seeds once they're planted - even how to deal with the media attention back home after a successful trip. An inspired work of whimsy, this is a spacefaring adventure for daydreamers and a starter kit for the imagination.

Author Biography

Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of some thirty books for children, including the 2004 Caldecott Medal winner, The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. A four-time winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year Award, his books include fantasy, Biblical retellings, biography, folklore, and alphabets and other works for preschoolers. He lives in Westhampton, Massachusetts.