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The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006) is a picture-book version of Stevenson’s famous poem (“The moon has a face like the clock in the hall…”) originally published in A Child’s Garden of Verses. The illustrations, by Tracy Campbell Pearson, show a little boy and his father on a moonlight adventure, accompanied by a dog, cat, and stuffed bunny. For ages 3 and up. |
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Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses, available in multiple editions, was originally published in 1885. Also available online.
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Switching on the Moon, compiled by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters (Candlewick, 2010), is an illustrated collection of short bedtime poems for ages 3-7, many with moon themes. |
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Douglas Florian’s Comets, Stars, the Moon and Mars (Harcourt Children’s Books, 2007) is an illustrated collection of catchy space poems for ages 5 and up, many featuring moons. |
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Marilyn Singer’s A Full Moon Rising (Lee & Low, 2014) is a collection of illustrated poems about full moon celebrations, beliefs, and customs around the world for ages 6-10. |
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The ten best examples of moon poetry according to The Guardian, include works by William Shakespeare, James Joyce, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath. |
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From the American Academy of Poets, see Poems About the Moon. |
